Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Yankee.
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- noun US A
Yankee , aNortherner : someone from the Northern United States. - noun sometimes pejorative A
Yankee , anAmerican : someone from theUnited States .
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Amazon affiliate link) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong! by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank is from Sitepoint (2008).
Web Teacher › Review: Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! 2008
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The article introduces a book by the same name by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank from Sitepoint.
Web Teacher › Useful Links: AEGIS, CSS Tables, Validation Report, the state of education 2008
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Well Kevin Yank disagrees, and Dave Winer, the inventor of RSS, certainly has a problem with it.
The wonderful world of Apple RSS « Scripting News Annex 2006
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The Atlanta Games didn't play out the way organizers envisioned they would, not even close, and the Sydney Games were reduced to a relentless exercise in Yank-bashing — international officials condemned the USA for serving as the moral compass of sport while allegedly covering up positive drug tests.
USATODAY.com - Big Apple doesn't need '12 Olympics to be big 2005
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Surely the word Yank in itself is far more opposable, or indeed Pom, than the abbreviation of the state of Pakistan for someone who comes from there?
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Surely the word Yank in itself is far more opposable, or indeed Pom, than the abbreviation of the state of Pakistan for someone who comes from there?
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Surely the word Yank in itself is far more opposable, or indeed Pom, than the abbreviation of the state of Pakistan for someone who comes from there?
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SitePoint Podcast #44: HTML5 is a (Beautiful) Mess is a discussion about HTML5 and related issues among Sitepoint’s Kevin Yank, Opera Software’s Bruce Lawson, author Ian Lloyd, and Kyle Weems of the CSSquirrel web comic. whose voice do you hear? gender issues and success from apophenia is a response to Clay Shirky’s Rant About Women.
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Apparently it’s true: the only thing stupider than a dumb Yank is a smart Southerner.
Think Progress » Virginia Gov. McDonnell proclaims April ‘Confederate History Month.’ 2010
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Canadian about a political party that plays to voters' anti-Americanism but swoons over the first big-name Yank who will acknowledge them.
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