Crossword-Solution: YANK 4 letters, 156 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Yank	n.	A jerk or twitch.
Yank	v. t.	To twitch; to jerk.
Yank	n.	An abbreviation of Yankee.

We have 156 clues for the answer “YANK”

Clue	Answers
"The Hairy Ape" role	1 answer
Pull strongly, as on a rope	1 answer
A lot of pull?	1 answer
A.E.F. man	1 answer
American equivalent of British Tommy.	1 answer
American, abroad	1 answer
American, across the pond	1 answer
American, in England	1 answer
American, in Ireland	1 answer
American, in W.W. II	1 answer
American, overseas	1 answer
American, to Brits	1 answer
American, to a Brit	1 answer
An American, to a Brit	1 answer
Ballplayer, for short.	1 answer
Big Apple ballplayer, for short	1 answer
Big tug	1 answer
Brit's WWII ally	1 answer
Brit's WWII comrade	1 answer
Bronx Bomber, for short	1 answer
Clemens, today	1 answer
Clinton at Oxford e.g.	1 answer
El Duque, for one	1 answer
Extract a tooth	1 answer
Extract with pliers	1 answer
Extract, as a tooth	1 answer
Fighter under the U. N.	1 answer
Fighting American.	1 answer
Foe at Fenway	1 answer
G. I. abroad.	1 answer
G. I. magazine of W. W. II.	1 answer
G. I. magazine of World War II.	1 answer
G. I. magazine.	1 answer
G.I. in England	1 answer
G.I., in W.W. I	1 answer
Give a firm tug to	1 answer
Give a good tug	1 answer
Give a hard tug	1 answer
Good tug	1 answer
Harsh tug	1 answer
Hero of "The Hairy Ape"	1 answer
Jerk hard	1 answer
Jerk sharply	1 answer
Jeter or Cone	1 answer
Kennedy, but not Carter	1 answer
Mantle or Jeter, for short	1 answer
Mantle was one	1 answer
Mantle, for example.	1 answer
Member of the 8th Army.	1 answer
Nickname for a G. I.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EEATR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with YANK (5)

The only way to make those linkages would be to perform a tremendous amount of real-time look-up, which would be awkward at best, or periodically to yank the whole file from RLIN and match it against one's own stuff, which is a nuisance.

LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993

The irrepressible Yank is knocking at the doors of their temples and he will want to sell 'em carpet-sweepers for their harems and electric light plants for their temple shrines.

The Octopus Frank Norris 2008

English they be and Japanee that hang on the Brown Bear's flank, And some be Scot, but the worst of the lot, and the boldest thieves, be Yank! It was the sealer _Northern Light_, to the Smoky Seas she bore, With a stovepipe stuck from a starboard port and the Russian flag at her fore.

Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 2008

Jist let him rin and swally, and whin me line is well out and he has me bait all digistid, 'yank,' I give him the round-up, and THIN, the fun begins.

At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1996

And Pollock tries to repair it by reading poetry to the crew! Me, I want to yank it up on the ways, and fire the poor bum of a shoemaker that built it so it sails crooked, and have it rebuilt right, from the keel up.” “Yes--that--that would be better.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 2006

Quotes with YANK (3)

Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On a regular basis. And no one else.""Ow!" I exclaimed, trying to yank my fingers from Trent but finding them caught. Then I colored, realizing what I'd said. "Oh… sorry," I stammered, meaning it. "That was insensitive." Trent's frown turned into a sly smirk. "Bump uglies?" he said, eyes on the table behind me. "You are a font of gutter slang, Rachel. We must do this again.

Kim Harrison For a Few Demons More

Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get.

Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead

I think the best way I can put it,” Tom summarized, “was what I was once told that a Confederate prisoner said to his Union captor. The Yank said: ‘Why do you fight us so hard, Reb?’, and his prisoner replied: ‘Because you are here, Yank’.

C.G. Faulkner Unreconstructed

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 246 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).