intransitive verb. To pull with a quick, strong movement; jerk.

intransitive verb. To extract or remove abruptly.

intransitive verb. To pull on something suddenly.

noun. A sudden vigorous pull; a jerk.

To be in active motion; move or work quickly; bustle.

To talk fast or constantly; scold; nag.

To move, carry, bring, take, etc., with a sudden jerk or jerking motion: usually with along, over, or out: as, to yank a fish out of the water.

noun. A quick, sharp stroke; a buffet.

noun. A jerk or twitch.

noun. plural Leggings or long gaiters worn in England by agricultural laborers.

noun. A Yankee.

noun. [The word acquired during the war of the rebellion wide currency as a nickname or contemptuous epithet among the Confederates for a Union soldier, the Confederates themselves being in like spirit dubbed Johnnies or Rebs by the Union soldiers.]

noun. A jerk or twitch.

noun. An abbreviation of Yankee.

transitive verb. To twitch; to jerk.

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

verb. To pull something with a quick, strong action.

verb. to remove from circulation

verb. pull, or move with a sudden movement

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

noun. an American (especially to non-Americans)

"It was one of the harder commands for me to learn because the word yank didn't say anything to me."

yanked  yanking  

American  draw  force  pull  

Blanc  Franck  Frank  Hank  Montblanc  

heave  jab  jerk  jolt  lurch  

bob  clutch  evulse  flick  flip  

Yankee  

yanked  yanking  yanks