yank

Related to yank: yank off

yank

1. tv. to harass someone. (see also yank someone around.) Stop yanking me!
2. n. a Yankee; a U.S. soldier. (Usually Yank.) I don’t care if you call me a yank. That’s what I am.
3. in. to vomit. Somebody or some animal yanked on the driveway.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • beat the dummy
  • pull someone's chain
  • yank
  • yank (one's) chain
  • yank (one's) crank
  • yank (someone or something) into (something or some place)
  • yank (someone or something) off of (someone or something else)
  • yank (someone or something) out of (something)
  • yank apart
  • yank around
  • yank at
  • yank at (someone or something)
  • yank away
  • yank away at (something)
  • yank chain
  • yank in
  • yank into
  • yank off
  • yank on
  • yank on (someone or something)
  • yank one’s strap
  • yank out
  • yank out of
  • yank somebody's chain
  • yank someone around
  • yank someone’s chain
  • yank someone’s crank
  • yank up
  • yanked
References in periodicals archive
Strangely, it is not A Yank in the RAF, starring Tyrone Power and Betty Grable, presumably the source for the title of this book.
Everyone just hangs out together after work, Yank said.
We argue that Yank wishes not only to escape from his alienation but hopes to secure a natural order unsullied by the sophistications of technological life.
I'm here to rescue refugees in Bulgaria with my own money," said Yank Barry.
Coming from the unheralded songwriting team of the Zelinik brothers, "Yank!" is the most intriguing new American musical to reach New York in several seasons.
"We know a Yank, just like you, who lives rather nearby!
Too many mechanics grab the ground cable and yank it like it's a vacuum cleaner cord.
DENVER (AP) -- The presidents of three colleges are assailing the decision to yank $37.5 million in state funds for a new science building on the Auraria campus in downtown Denver.
Yank magazine, published from May 1942 to December 1945, provided World War II GIs with much-needed entertainment and comic relief from the war, becoming the most-widely read publication in the history of the U.S.
"You just give them a common peroneal strike and yank it down and be on your merry way," a private accused of murder told Golden.
"One of Bob's favorite expressions was, 'I am a Yank and I am a fighter.'" said Paul de Haan, director, resource management.
a self-absorbed social worker on a slumming expedition, and Yank, a
Speaking on behalf of the American Medical Association, Yank D.
Aside from loneliness and being the perpetual outsider (she is a Yank), she has encounters with the school bully, glue sniffing, arson, and a schoolgirl crush on her chemistry teacher that goes beyond friendship.
Hayes' inclination to yank readers from their fantasy of bearing witness and return them to the longing of the self, perhaps, highlights the entire collection's greatest ambition and its greatest weakness--tenderness.