yank

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Yank
    n 1: an American who lives in the North (especially during the
         American Civil War) [syn: {Yankee}, {Yank}, {Northerner}]
    2: an American (especially to non-Americans) [syn: {Yankee},
       {Yank}, {Yankee-Doodle}]
    v 1: pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle
         and jerked the door open" [syn: {yank}, {jerk}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Yank \Yank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yanked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Yanking}.]
   To twitch; to jerk. [Colloq. U. S.]
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Yank \Yank\, n.
   An abbreviation of {Yankee}. [Slang]
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Yank \Yank\, n. [Cf. Scot. yank a sudden and severe blow.]
   A jerk or twitch. [Colloq. U. S.]
   [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

yank

   <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)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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