Synonyms for yank
yæŋkyank

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. yanknoun

   A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States.

   Synonyms:
   tug, jerk

2. Yanknoun

   A Yankee, an American: someone from the United States.

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

   Synonyms:
   tug, jerk, recall, pull

3. Yanknoun

   Synonyms:
   American

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. Yankee, Yank, Northernernoun

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

2. Yankee, Yank, Yankee-Doodleverb

   an American (especially to non-Americans)

3. yank, jerkverb

   pull, or move with a sudden movement

   "He turned the handle and jerked the door open"

   Synonyms:
   jerk, flick, hitch, twitch, buck

Matched Categories

1. • American
   • Pull

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tug

   as to quickly tug, jerk or pull at something attached by a rope or other line held in hand.

   they all grabbed the rope in unison and yanked it quickly & even harder, so as to dislodge it from it's place of mooring.

   Submitted by acronimous on December 8, 2019  

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. yanknoun

   Synonyms:
   pull, jerk, twitch

2. yankverb

   Synonyms:
   pull, jerk, twitch, snatch

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "yank":

   yankee

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How to use yank in a sentence?

1. Jen Psaki:

   We were actually about to wrap this meeting up because it was clearly a bad idea, hey, don't do that. Don't just yank the plunger off the nipple like that.

2. Frederic Neumann:

   The Fed has got markets by the leash. And this week, it will once more tug and yank.

3. Bowen Yang:

   Hey, don't do that. Don't just yank the plunger off the nipple like that, you know, the idea of asking TikTok stars how to fight Russia might sound like a joke, but remember, they said the same thing about the radio in World War II.

4. Kelly Shar Khuu:

   All the ladies were hitting him, i got the aluminum foil. The robber, a tall and robust man, was trying to yank the drawer free from the four petite women who held on with everything they had.

5. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu:

   There are all kinds of issues ... one of those is whether we need to yank out the fiscal terms and develop them into a different law relying on existing fiscal laws and amend those.