meaning of yank

1. A jerk or twitch.
2. To twitch; to jerk.
3. An abbreviation of Yankee.
4. 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?]
5. an American

Related Words

yank | yanked | yankee | yankee corn | yankee-doodle | yankeeism | yanker | yanking |

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