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# yank

«yank» in Mova's school dictionary: **to pull it suddenly and hard** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (yank, yanks, yanked, yanking); noun (a yank, yanks); Yank — informal noun for an American

### meaning for a pupil

1) To yank something is to pull it suddenly and hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yank/#m1)

2) A yank is one quick, strong pull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yank/#m2)

3) Yank (with a capital Y) is an informal, sometimes rude word some people use for a person from the USA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yank/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories it shows a fast, rough pull, often done in a hurry, in anger or in an emergency: «yank open the door», «yank out a tooth», «yank the plug out». In safety lessons pupils learn not to yank cables or pull a friend's chair away. In science (forces) a yank is a sudden pull force.

### examples

- She yanked the door open and ran outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yank/#x1)
- The dog yanked on its lead when it saw a cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yank/#x2)
- Don't yank the charger out of the wall by the cable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yank/#x3)
- With one yank, the weed came out of the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yank/#x4)
- Dad gave the rope a yank to start the lawnmower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yank/#x5)
- He yanked his hand back from the hot pan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yank/#x6)
- The loose tooth came out with a gentle yank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yank/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: yank, yanked, yanking. Countable noun: a yank, two yanks. Stronger and quicker than «pull» or «tug». «Yank» for an American person is slang and can sound unfriendly, so pupils should avoid it.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «yank» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yank/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.