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Synonyms for YANK
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Wiktionary4.0 / 1 vote

  1. yanknoun

    A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States.

    Synonyms:
    tug, jerk

  2. Yanknoun

    A Yankee, an American: someone from the United States.

    They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.

    Synonyms:
    tug, jerk, recall, pull

  3. Yanknoun

    Synonyms:
    American

Princeton's WordNet2.3 / 3 votes

  1. Yankee, Yank, Northernernoun

    an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)

  2. Yankee, Yank, Yankee-Doodleverb

    an American (especially to non-Americans)

  3. yank, jerkverb

    pull, or move with a sudden movement

    "He turned the handle and jerked the door open"

    Synonyms:
    jerk, yank, flick, hitch, twitch, buck

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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. tug

    as to quickly tug, jerk or pull at something attached by a rope or other line held in hand.

    they all grabbed the rope in unison and yanked it quickly & even harder, so as to dislodge it from it's place of mooring.

    Submitted by acronimous on December 8, 2019  

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 1 vote

  1. yanknoun

    Synonyms:
    pull, jerk, twitch

  2. yankverb

    Synonyms:
    pull, jerk, twitch, snatch

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "yank":

    yankee

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#3810pull
#5370recall
#8285buck
#10761yankee
#14556jerk
#14594hitch
#16465flick
#20230tug
#33970yank
#35877twitch

How to use YANK in a sentence?

  1. Jen Psaki:

    We were actually about to wrap this meeting up because it was clearly a bad idea, hey, don't do that. Don't just yank the plunger off the nipple like that.

  2. Kelly Shar Khuu:

    All the ladies were hitting him, i got the aluminum foil. The robber, a tall and robust man, was trying to yank the drawer free from the four petite women who held on with everything they had.

  3. Bowen Yang:

    Hey, don't do that. Don't just yank the plunger off the nipple like that, you know, the idea of asking TikTok stars how to fight Russia might sound like a joke, but remember, they said the same thing about the radio in World War II.

  4. Frederic Neumann:

    The Fed has got markets by the leash. And this week, it will once more tug and yank.

  5. Adam Jentleson:

    To yank the bill out of committee and rush it to the floor unilaterally with no input from the Democrats who have worked very hard on this issue makes it clear that Republicans are looking to score cheap political points instead of producing the bipartisan outcome that is Israel's best interest, that action, in the blink of an eye, undermines a tremendous amount of bipartisan effort to move the process forward in a way that kept Democrats and Republicans together.


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