Yank

/ˈjæŋk/ · noun

Meaning

A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force)..

Definitions by Sense

1. A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).
2. (slang) An act of masturbation.
3. (slang, MLE) Alternative form of shank (“stabbing weapon”).
4. (transitive) To pull (something) with a quick, strong action.
5. (transitive, informal) To remove; to recall or revoke.
6. (ambitransitive, slang) To masturbate.
7. (often derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Yank (“Yankee”).

Example Sentences

He unjammed the rope with a short yank.

He rested his hand on his bare chest, an innocent enough spot, but soon it drifted of its own accord down his stomach to slide beneath the waistband of his briefs. Fine. A quick yank would relieve the sexual tension that simmered in him.

Tell my young bad, she can vouch for me I was only thirteen with a yank on me

Now a white-backed rams its head down the wildebeest’s throat and yanks out an eight-inch length of trachea, ribbed like a vacuum hose.

[Regarding risks of AI] And you just have to have somebody close to the power cord. [Laughs.]^([sic]) Right when you see it about to happen, you gotta yank that electricity out of the wall, man.

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

The cops yanked my driver's license.

In the dark protection of the auditorium and his Baltimore cape, with two coiled females only inches beneath his feet, completely in his power and ignorant of the invisible force that held them captive, only this shadow knew, the True Dildough, with great pleasure and tremendous gutsy motions, yanked his full-grown penis to a gigantically pleasurable orgasm.

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• yanks
• yanking
• yanked

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