yank : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: yank	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for yank
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Yank n an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War) Synonym(s): Yankee, Yank, Northerner an American (especially to non-Americans) Synonym(s): Yankee, Yank, Yankee-Doodle v pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle and jerked the door open" Synonym(s): yank, jerk
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yank \Yank\, n. [Cf. Scot. yank a sudden and severe blow.] A jerk or twitch. [Colloq. U. S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yank \Yank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yanked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Yanking}.] To twitch; to jerk. [Colloq. U. S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yank \Yank\, n. An abbreviation of {Yankee}. [Slang]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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?] (1998-07-01)