yank
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If the Labour Party is up the creek without a paddle after last week, to revert to Yank lingo, it also finds itself in an anomalous position.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
She said her mother had come to London to celebrate the end of World War I and met and married a Yank.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
The company plans a partnership with Yank Marine, a women-owned business in New Jersey, to manufacture a support vessel to deploy, dispatch, and collect technicians for operations and maintenance activities.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023
Fitzgerald dedicated the book to MGM Screenwriter Harold Goldman, with whom he worked on the 1938 Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh comedy A Yank In Oxford.
From BBC • Jul. 9, 2023
Yank on the ropes, watch the silly wooden soldier jump and twitch.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Vocabulary lists containing yank
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