Yoink

/jɔɪŋk/ · verb

Meaning

(onomatopoeia) To make an oinking sound..

Definitions by Sense

1. (onomatopoeia) To make an oinking sound.
2. (colloquial) To hop or bounce.
3. nonce word for an action that impacts on something, especially if it is sudden.
4. (slang) To kill.
5. (slang) An ordinary person with nothing to recommend them.
6. (colloquial) Used for emphasis or to express that one is impressed.
7. (colloquial) Onomatopoeic, accompanying or describing a yank, swipe, or snatch.
8. (colloquial) To yank or snatch.

Example Sentences

Outside in the fog and the damp and cool air, common to County Cavan, he strode briskly along the road and when he arrived Cummings was already out and busy and the pigs—a big drove of them—were yoinking for their feed.

Carl Solomon yoinking around so frenziedly on a pogo stick that one night he put the end of it right through the floor into the restaurant below -- and all their girls, and their friends' girls, and their friends' friends, and even nameless others who may have just heard the hubbub and walkin in the door.

All of the clout is upstairs, yoinking around with meetings and that.

Por supuesto, Ethan Suva yoinked the silence.

I'll be going along, doing my starving-writer thing, free from the shackles of 'The Tube'; and, suddenly, my inspiration will die. Just gone, yoinked like a plug.

"By all indications, the closet was just where the killah left her." He flipped through his notebook and then back, verifying his info. Good cop, Bubo thought. Thorough. "Yup," he said, tapping the page. “By all indications, it looks like she got herself yoinked someplace else.”

“DanU? You shittin me?” His eyes got big. He yoinked My Pal Roofie.

Yessir, we need you Yoinks. You're all we have, you are.

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Word Forms

• yoinks
• yoinking
• yoinked

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