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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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