it’s an interpret word. you can use it as anything but a verb. Yank can be anything or anybody but the only way you can know what it mean is by situation and context clues.

A dollar

A noun a british person will use to describe a dumb american.
Plural: Yanks

To steal something, anything privately owned or public.

The act of taking ones hair out if yours looks like Yvonnes.

It means a dollar

A shady verbal comment.