Yank
Yank may refer to:
- Yankee, a slang term, with various meanings, for someone of American origin. It is particularly used in a derogative sense, with connotations of someone from the USA who is arrogant and/or loud-mouthed.
Sports teams
- Boston Yanks, a National Football League team from 1944 to 1948
- New York Yanks, a National Football League team in 1950 and 1951, originally the Boston Yanks
- New York Yankees, a Major League Baseball team nicknamed the "Yanks"
- "The Yanks", a nickname for:
- United States men's national soccer team
- United States men's national under-23 soccer team
- United States men's national under-21 soccer team
- United States men's national under-20 soccer team
- United States men's national under-18 soccer team
- United States men's national under-17 soccer team
- United States women's national soccer team
- United States women's national under-23 soccer team
- United States women's national under-20 soccer team
- United States women's national under-17 soccer team
Arts and entertainment
- Yanks, a 1979 film
- The Yank, a 2014 American comedy film by Sean Lackey
- Yank!, an off-Broadway play about homosexual soldiers in World War II
- Yank, a 1940s comic book superhero, see Yank & Doodle
- Billy Yank, a protagonist in the 1950s comic strip Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
People
- Yank (nickname)
- Yank Porter (c. 1895-1944), American jazz drummer
Other uses
- Yank, the Army Weekly, a magazine for American soldiers during World War II
- USS Yank (SP-908), a US Navy patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919
- Yank (automobile), an unsuccessful American sports car produced in 1950
- Yank, nickname for the Queensland AC16 class locomotive
- The Yank, nickname of the prototype for the Waveney-class lifeboat
- Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California
- Yank (physics), a unit in physics (rate of change of force per unit time)
- Yank, the name for the copy command in vi and the paste command in Emacs, two commonly used UNIX/Linux text editors
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