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1. Pull, or move with a sudden movement
   "He turned the handle and yanked the door open";
   - jerk, hoick [informal]

1. An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)
   - Yankee [informal], Northerner
    
2. An American (especially to non-Americans)
   - Yankee [informal], Yankee-Doodle [informal], seppo [Austral, NZ, informal]

Derived forms: yanked, Yanks, yanks, yanking

Type of: American, draw, pull

Part of: North, Northern United States

Encyclopedia: Yank, the Army Weekly