Yanking

v. pull with a sudden jerking motion; wrench; pull out; uproot

Verb
1. pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle and jerked the door open"
(synonym) jerk
(hypernym) pull, draw, force
(derivation) yanker, jerker

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Yank
  

<jargon> (From the colloquial meaning "to pull suddenly") To insert a copy of some saved text at the current position in a document being edited.
The term is used in the Unix text editors GNU Emacs and vi but "paste" is more common elsewhere.
[Used elsewhere?]
(1998-07-01)

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