Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A smart blow.
- noun A great falsehood; a plumper.
- noun Same as
yankie , 2.
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- noun Someone who
yanks , or gives a sudden hardpull - noun Scotland A
brazen lie
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who gives a strong sudden pull
Etymologies
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Examples
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Who, I take it, is channeled in the final scenes of I Am Sam, as Sean Penn revives a speech from my very favorite 1970s DH tear-yanker, Kramer vs. Kramer.
Melissa Kirsch: When the Soundtrack is Better Than the Movie 2008
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While Rove and Limbaugh, the diaxis of evil, have their old crank-yanker with the dicey health records hooked up to adrenalized life-support, they have their v-p candidate hooked up to the info-injection machine.
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Extraordinarily interesting thread--Thanks to integrity for disclosing he is simply a bomb thrower, chain yanker and disrupter of the peace.
Look at the movement on Gallup's "strong and decisive leader" graph. Ann Althouse 2008
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Last night some yanker used my name on a thread, so I had to file a complaint with Judd about it.
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A male friend cut his hair & shaved off his beard for the first time in a decade when it became too much trouble with the little yanker.
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Charles Krauthammer, chain-yanker: Most of our pundits enjoy the moral advantage of not being smart enough to realize when they are misleading the public.
Archive 2005-11-20 Steve Sailer 2005
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Charles Krauthammer, chain-yanker: Most of our pundits enjoy the moral advantage of not being smart enough to realize when they are misleading the public.
Charles Krauthammer, chain-yanker Steve Sailer 2005
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Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog: Charles Krauthammer, chain-yanker skip to main
Charles Krauthammer, chain-yanker Steve Sailer 2005
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And again, all this time -- a very short time, considering the changes it made in everybody concerned -- Ferriday was Kedzie's alternate hope and despair, good angel and bad, uplifter and down-yanker.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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I'm sure he gets this a lot, and I know I'm not the only person who thought this, but I just imagined the grown-up Cameron from 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' wielding that tooth yanker as his angst-ridden Excalibur, extracting (no pun intended) his revenge on the evils of the world.
TV Squad Danny Gallagher 2010
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