Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To pull with a quick, strong movement; jerk.
- intransitive verb Informal To extract or remove abruptly.
- intransitive verb To pull on something suddenly.
- noun A sudden vigorous pull; a jerk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A quick, sharp stroke; a buffet.
- noun A jerk or twitch.
- noun plural Leggings or long gaiters worn in England by agricultural laborers.
- noun A Yankee.
- noun [The word acquired during the war of the rebellion wide currency as a nickname or contemptuous epithet among the Confederates for a Union soldier, the Confederates themselves being in like spirit dubbed Johnnies or Rebs by the Union soldiers.]
- To be in active motion; move or work quickly; bustle.
- To talk fast or constantly; scold; nag.
- To move, carry, bring, take, etc., with a sudden jerk or jerking motion: usually with along, over, or out: as, to
yank a fish out of the water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang An abbreviation of
Yankee . - transitive verb Colloq. U. S. To twitch; to jerk.
- noun Colloq. U. S. A jerk or twitch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sudden ,vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass timesjerk , or rate of change offorce ). - verb transitive To pull something with a
quick ,strong action . - verb transitive to
remove fromcirculation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb pull, or move with a sudden movement
- noun an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)
- noun an American (especially to non-Americans)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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