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Yank. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Thornton’s An American Glossary. 1912, rev. 2022. Yank To pull, to snatch; always expressive of quick movement.

1 1854.  Afore you could say Sam Patch, them hogs were yanked aout of the lot, kilt and scraped.—N.Y. Spirit of the Times, n.d.

2 1856.          The Poet looks wild at the blue-eyed child,   Then clutches him by the hair, And makes him abide by the chimney-side,   As he sinks back in his chair—    Pulls back the machine, and with dreadful mein   He oils each rusty wheel, Then seizes the crank, and with many a yank,     Brings out a poetic squeal. How Yankee is ‘yank!’—Knick. Mag., xlvii. 323 (March).

3 1869.  He took his pole and reached after that goose with unspeakable sang froid—took a hitch round his neck, and “yanked” him back to his place in the flock without an effort.—Mark Twain, ‘The Innocents Abroad,’ ch. xxxiii.

4 1890.  I took hold of his [the wolf’s] chain and yanked him down.—Mrs. Custer, ‘Following the Guidon,’ p. 121 (N.Y.).

5 1891.  She … was, as she phrased it, “yanked” off the steps upon the platform by an impatient brakeman.—Rose T. Cooke, ‘Huckleberries,’ p. 322 (Boston).

6 1901.  They [the Chilean officers] were smart enough to see that while I had no ‘chip on my shoulder,’ yet I would yank up the first man who ventured to neglect the least point of etiquette.—R. D. Evans, ‘A Sailor’s Log,’ p. 264.

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