Meaning of yoink | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make an oinking sound.
   onomatopoeic
2. To yank or snatch.
   colloquial
3. To hop or bounce.
   colloquial
4. To steal.
   colloquial
5. nonce word for an action that impacts on something, especially if it is sudden.
6. To take or win (something that others want).
   colloquial
7. To kill.
   slang

Examples

“Outside in the fog and the damp and cool air, common to County Cavan, he strode briskly along the road and when he arrived Cummings was already out and busy and the pigs—a big drove of them—were yoinking for their feed.”

“Carl Solomon yoinking around so frenziedly on a pogo stick that one night he put the end of it right through the floor into the restaurant below -- and all their girls, and their friends' girls, and their friends' friends, and even nameless others who may have just heard the hubbub and walkin in the door.”

“...you're yoinked right back to the last spawn point.”

“All of the clout is upstairs, yoinking around with meetings and that.”

“Por supuesto, Ethan Suva yoinked the silence.”

“I'll be going along, doing my starving-writer thing, free from the shackles of 'The Tube'; and, suddenly, my inspiration will die. Just gone, yoinked like a plug.”

“"By all indications, the closet was just where the killah left her." He flipped through his notebook and then back, verifying his info. Good cop, Bubo thought. Thorough. "Yup," he said, tapping the page. “By all indications, it looks like she got herself yoinked someplace else.””

““DanU? You shittin me?” His eyes got big. He yoinked My Pal Roofie.”

“I'm sure that there is pinching, punching, eye gouging, yoinking, hair pulling and who knows what else underneath where eyes can't follow, but he comes out and hands the referee the ball and hits the line again.”

“The first time he yoinked at my arm all three of us–me, doctor and bed –flew across the room.”

“That was the stress that yoinked the whole support gantry down— like trying to stop a medium-sized car with one pull.””

“"Hey!" some AV kid said when I snuck up behind him and yoinked a microphone from his cart.”

“At the far end of the Shrine stands the Coronation Chair, built for Edward I; the shelf below the seat was made to house the Scottish Stone of Scone, which the sticky-fingered Edward yoinked in 1296 ...”

“I broke-and-entered the clinic last night and yoinked em.'”

“He had yoinked dozens off Gav over the years.”

“Waiters were in on the ruse, and would frequently distract customers in order to facilitate the yoinking of oysters and caviar.”

“Jonas thinks he's such a free fucking spirit for sporting that Revolutionary War–esque overcoat he yoinked from that thrift shop in Philly.”

“On my first four turns, I yoinked Australia. Playing Risk with these girls was so fun because in my whole life I've never seen two people happier.”

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