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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Yank \Yank\, noun [Cf. Scot. yank a sudden and severe blow.] A jerk or twitch. [Colloq. U. S.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Yank \Yank\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Yanked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Yanking}.] To twitch; to jerk. [Colloq. U. S.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Yank \Yank\, noun An abbreviation of {Yankee}. [Slang]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Yank
noun
1: an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War) [syn: {Yankee}, {Northerner}]
2: an American who lives in New England [syn: {New Englander}, {Yankee}]
3: an American [syn: {Yankee}, {Yankee-Doodle}]
verb: pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle and jerked the door open" [syn: {jerk}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "yank": bob, clutch, evulse, flick, flip, flirt, flounce, grab, hitch, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, lug, lurch, pluck, pull, snake, snap, snatch, start, sudden pull, tear, tug, tweak, twitch, vellicate, wrench, yerk
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
yank (From the colloquial meaning "to pull suddenly") To insert a copy of some saved text at the current position in a document being edited. The term is used in the {Unix} {text editors} {GNU Emacs} and {vi} but "{paste}" is more common elsewhere. [Used elsewhere?] (1998-07-01)
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