yank

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
yank /jaŋk/ informal

▶verb

• 1 pull with a jerk.

• 2 N. Amer. withdraw or cancel abruptly.

▶noun a sudden hard pull.

– origin C18 (as a Scots word in the sense ‘sudden sharp blow’): of unknown origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Yank/jaŋk/

▶noun informal

• 1 often derogatory an American.

• 2 US another term for Yankee (sense 2)).