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.

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