Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Active; pushing; thoroughgoing.
- Jerking; pulling.
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- verb Present participle of
yank .
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Examples
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In a bigger miscalculation, “Repo Men” wants its violence both ways — sometimes the bloodletting and organ yanking is supposed to be savagely realistic and sometimes we are supposed to marvel at how cool Jude Law looks in slo-mo while running multiple people through with knives in each hand.
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Over several months, my novels giddy plot persisted in yanking me into the dark and dusty chambers of the unknown-dank basements where I had no context for my characters, no understanding of their daily habits or the world they inhabited, none of the necessary foundations of a story.
Secrets of the Crypt - Arthur Phillips talks about how he came to write The Egyptologist 2010
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A 10-year veteran, Mr. McKenzie was called for personal fouls twice in a seven-minute span in the fourth quarter, netting him a yanking from the game and waves of interrogators afterward.
Giants Their Own Worst Enemy Aditi Kinkhabwala 2010
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Arizonans took offense at this chain yanking and so the NFL put the Superbowl that year in Los Angeles – where they have an MLK Day but beat black motorists.
Matthew Yglesias » Rep Trent Franks: Blacks Were Better Off Under Slavery 2010
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So far (knock on wood) he hasn't had much interest in yanking the bottled from the door out.
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So far (knock on wood) he hasn't had much interest in yanking the bottled from the door out.
LENNDEVOURS: 2008
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The pilots took off full-throttle, accelerating and zigzagging – called yanking and banking – to evade enemy fire.
Afghanistan Medevac Team Saves Lives During Wartime The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The pilots took off full-throttle, accelerating and zigzagging & ndash; called yanking and banking & ndash; to evade enemy fire.
Afghanistan Medevac Team Saves Lives During Wartime The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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And he seems to be enjoying the idea of yanking our chain.
Yanking Our Chain? 2008
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'Sources close to the project say the network, which has been in a media maelstrom over the pic, is mulling the idea of yanking the mini altogether'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Under Fire, ABC Mulls Yanking "Path To 9/11" Altogether 2006
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