Yank adj.
1. American.
![]() | Behind the Bars 145: I t’ink you’s one dem Yank’ fellers. | |
![]() | Powers That Prey 255: A Yank copper in London offered me good money ’f I’d work for him. | |
![]() | Hotspur 11 Jan. 43: The Trans-Atlantic House, better known as Yank House. | |
![]() | Naugatuck Dly Times (CT) 8 Nov. 8/5: Some of General Hodges’ Yank soldiers [...] are fighting a grim to to toe slugfest in Hurtgen forest. | |
![]() | Absolute Beginners 22: Inside it looked cool and costly [...] Yank mags and indoor plants. | |
![]() | letter 20 June in Leader (2000) 602: What more natural than that I should be sendin a Leter to my Old yank Pall roo-kaiser what a Swel kidd he is and no Eror. | |
![]() | Enderby Outside in Complete Enderby (2002) 304: It’s mostly Yank camps, junkies, had-no-lucks. | |
![]() | Maledicta II:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 119: The Telegraph author [...] finds it convenient to deny much familiarity with things yank. | |
![]() | Traveller’s Tool 18: I bumped into a Yank delegate who’d never even heard of Australia. | |
![]() | Therapy (1996) 261: He doesn’t help his cause by referring to them contemptuously as ‘them yank poofters.’. | |
![]() | Guardian G2 22 Feb. 17: There’s always overblown Yank rockers Smashing Pumpkins across town the same night. |
2. see Yank tank
In derivatives
obsessed with Americans.
![]() | Indiscreet Guide to Soho 49: He is a Yank-crazy youngster who chews gum incessantly. |
In compounds
see separate entry.
(N.Z.) a large US car.
![]() | Up the Junction 91: Lovely motors, these Yanks. | |
![]() | Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 127/1: yank tank large American car. | |
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. | |
![]() | Old Scores [ebook] ‘Or I could buy you a beer, while you tell me how you managed to get the Yank tank halfway across the city?’. |