Yank
WordNet
noun
(1) An American (especially to non-Americans)
(2) An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)
verb
(3) Pull, or move with a sudden movement
"He turned the handle and jerked the door open"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States.
- 1865, unnamed Confederate officer, according to Lieutenant Joseph E. Moody, U.S.V., “Life in Confederate Prisons”, in Civil War Papers, Volume II, Massachusetts Commandery (1900), page 368:
- Halt! come down there, you Yanks, come down!
- 1944, Howard Fast, Freedom Road, M.E. Sharpe (1995), ISBN 978-1-56324-440-7, page 33:
- “I do wish I might of found you in my sights when you was with them damn Yanks,” Abner added.
- 2004, O. K. Williams, The Way the Cards Fall, Trafford Publishing, ISBN 9781412022897, page 16:
- Corporal Bob explained, “The Yanks has tha best weapons. But us Rebs know how to shoot tha damn things. ”
- 1865, unnamed Confederate officer, according to Lieutenant Joseph E. Moody, U.S.V., “Life in Confederate Prisons”, in Civil War Papers, Volume II, Massachusetts Commandery (1900), page 368:
- A Yankee, an American: someone from the United States.
- 1951, “The Yanks Are Coming: U.S. shows world we are playing for keeps as 4th Division leaves to join Eisenhower's NATO army”, in Life, 11 June 1951, page 38:
- “This time,” he [
General Alphonse-Pierre Juin] told the Yanks, “you have not crossed to win new victories but to preserve peace. ”
- “This time,” he [
- 1951, “The Yanks Are Coming: U.S. shows world we are playing for keeps as 4th Division leaves to join Eisenhower's NATO army”, in Life, 11 June 1951, page 38: