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yanked

Verb - to steal from someone or someplace
I totally yanked those dvds from bestbuy
by Fitz Bailey April 30, 2006
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yank

A word used by Brits, Aussies, and various others to refer to Americans. Connotation can range from affectionate to pejorative. Often associated with tired stereotypes of Americans being, of course, fat and stupid people who all drive Hummers and love George Bush (all 32% of us!) and can't locate the planet Earth on a map.

Ironically, within the States, the term is used by the people who best fit said stereotype as a pejorative term for educated, left-leaning urban Northerners.
Chav on bus: Oy, mate! D'yeh think 'at fatty what jus' got on is a yank, like?
University student next to him: It's probably hard for someone who's never left Essex to understand, but...oh, nevermind. I like those Burbory shoelaces in your trainers.
by Iacob September 4, 2008
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the yanks

Common plural nick name given by the British to the Americans, often associated with the national stereotype i.e: fat, lazy, stupid, arrogant, ignorant arseholes who take the glory from anyone and everyone and pass it on as their achievement.
Brian: "Oi! i thought the yanks were supposed to be here by now."

Trevor: " that's them for ya"
by likeitornot159987 January 15, 2014
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Yanking It

Humping your fist with your flesh harpoon.
Marcy walked into her bathroom only to discover David yanking it in front of her sink.
by Lazynutz July 7, 2005
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Yanks

<noun> Colloquial

1. Term used by Southern Americans to refer to a Northern American.

2. Term used by foreign nations, chiefly Britain and Australia to refer to Americans.

==> The term is thought to derive from Dutch settlers in the 1600's referring to the English colonials as 'Jan Kees' (John Cheese) which entered our language with the spelling 'Yankees,' as that is how it would sound in Dutch. 'Yanks' is simply a shortened form of it.
English Guy: "Those bloody Yanks."

Redneck hick from the South: "Yeehaw, thems Yankies are'sa comin', get the showtgun, yiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeep!!!"
by Stuart Fletcher May 22, 2006
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yank

simple really..
a word used to describe american people
that man is from america.. he is a yank
by -Willy- July 10, 2005
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Yank

" that yank is crazy."
by keke G. January 7, 2008
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