Yank

Yank is a shortened form of Yankee, a slang term (sometimes pejorative) for someone of American origin or heritage. In the United States, the word refers to people in the Northern states.

Yank or Yanks may also refer to:

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
• 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 newspaper 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, a unit in physics (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