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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Yank  \Yank\,  n.  [Cf.  Scot.  yank  a  sudden  and  severe  blow.] 
  A  jerk  or  twitch.  [Colloq.  U.  S.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Yank  \Yank\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Yanked};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Yanking}.] 
  To  twitch;  to  jerk.  [Colloq.  U.  S.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Yank  \Yank\,  n. 
  An  abbreviation  of  {Yankee}.  [Slang] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Yank 
  n  1:  an  American  who  lives  in  the  North  (especially  during  the 
  American  Civil  War)  [syn:  {Yankee},  {Yank},  {Northerner}] 
  2:  an  American  who  lives  in  New  England  [syn:  {New  Englander}, 
  {Yankee},  {Yank}] 
  3:  an  American  [syn:  {Yankee},  {Yank},  {Yankee-Doddle}] 
  v  :  pull  or  move  with  a  sudden  movement:  "Shayne  turned  the 
  handle  and  jerked  the  door  open.."  [syn:  {jerk}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [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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