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To yank is a verb, meaning "to pull hard". For example, someone observing someone else having difficulty pulling a bath plug out of its hole might say "go on, give it a good yank".

"Yank" may also refer to:

  • Yank, an abbreviated form of Yankee, a word used in some English-speaking countries to refer to Americans, and within the USA to refer to Northerners
  • Yank, the Army Weekly, a newspaper for American soldiers during World War II
  • Yank (physics), the rate of change in force
  • Yanks, a 1979 film
  • Yank Rachell bluesman, mandolin and guitar player.
  • Yank, the name for the copy command in vi and the paste command in Emacs, two commonly used unix/linux text editor.
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