| n. | 1. | A jerk or twitch. |
| v. t. | 1. | To twitch; to jerk. |
| n. | 1. | An abbreviation of Yankee. |
| Noun | 1. | Yank - an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War) Synonyms: Yankee, Northerner |
| 2. | Yank - an American who lives in New England Synonyms: New Englander, Yankee | |
| 3. | Yank - an American Synonyms: Yankee-Doodle, Yankee | |
| Verb | 1. | yank - pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle and jerked the door open" Synonyms: jerk |
| (jargon) | 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. |