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YANK; Yank (disambiguation)
<jargon> (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)
Yank         
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YANK; Yank (disambiguation)
(Yanks)
Some people refer to people from the United States of America as Yanks. This use could cause offence. (INFORMAL)
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Yank         
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YANK; Yank (disambiguation)
¦ noun informal
1. often derogatory an American.
2. US another term for Yankee (in sense 2).

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Yank
Examples of use of yank
1. Forced on the defensive, Bush had to yank the spot.
2. Israel‘s civil service professionals are trying to yank the wheel in order to avoid a crash.
3. Where sports are concerned, however, I‘ll always be a Yank and a Bostonian first and foremost.
4. "The British are coming, and they‘ve decided to hire a Yank," Hartman says.
5. It was a yank on a chifney bit that had made a stallion balk.