yanks

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

n. strong tug, drawing towards

n. American; native of a northern state of the U.S.A.; Federal soldier in the American Civil War

Yanks is a 1979 John Schlesinger film, set in World War II in the village of Dobcross, near Oldham, Lancashire, England. Starring Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane and Lisa Eichhorn.
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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

<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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