yoke v.
1. (US) to murder by strangulation or by cutting someone’s throat from behind.
![]() | Prison Sl. 94: Yoke To kill someone by grasping his throat and choking him. |
2. to rob while choking or strangling the victim, either with a rope or stick; one person does the yoking, the other rifles the victim’s pockets.
![]() | It’s Cold Out There (2005) 196: How easy it would be to yoke the clerk [...] and empty the till. | |
![]() | (con. 1985–90) In Search of Respect 36: It started when two crackheads [...] yoked this girl. They beat her down and took her jewelry. | |
![]() | (con. 1946) Big Blowdown (1999) 4: I got yoked, that’s all. Some guys jumped me. |
In phrases
of a couple, to join in sexual intercourse.
![]() | [trans.] Cervantes Don Quixote 497: I met this Woman, and presently the Devil entered my Codpeice [...] his Temptations were so strong, that he forc’d us to Yoak together, and I think I gave her that which would ha’ given any reasonable Woman content. | |
![]() | Memoirs V 136: [song lurocs] carlet is my cloak, / Like your blushes, glowing, / Come, and wear the yoke, / With a dog so knowing. |