yank at someone or something
to pull or tug at someone or something. Please don't yank at the drapery cord. Stop yanking at me!
yank on something
to pull or tug on something. Don't yank on my hair! Yank on this rope to send a signal to the worker on the floor above.
yank someone around
Sl. to harass someone; to give someone a hard time. Listen, I don't mean to yank you around all the time, but we have to have the drawings by Monday. Please stop yanking me around.
yank someone or something apart
1. to pull, tear, or rip someone or something to pieces. Please don't yank the book apart! He yanked apart the book! He threatened to yank his opponent apart.
2. to separate people or things. The teacher yanked them apart. The teacher yanked apart the fighting boys.
yank someone or something around
to pull or jerk someone or something around. Don't yank Billy around so. You'll hurt him! Please don't yank the chairs around. Move them carefully.
yank someone or something away (from someone or something)
to jerk someone or something away from someone or something. He yanked his hand away from the fire. Please yank away that rug from the fire before it gets burned.
yank someone or something into something
and yank someone or somethingto jerk or pull someone or something into something. Mary yanked Sally into the car and sped off. She yanked in the anchor rope and we rowed away.
yank someone or something off (of) something
and yank someone or something offto jerk someone or something off something. (Of is usually retained before pronouns.) She yanked the coffeepot off the counter and ran upstairs. She yanked off the box lid.
yank someone or something out of something
and yank someone or something outto pull or jerk someone or something out of something. Sam yanked the turnips out of the ground one by one. He yanked out the best of the young carrots from the rich soil.
yank someone's chain
Sl. to harass someone; to give someone a hard time. (As if one were a dog wearing a choker collar, on a leash.) Stop yanking my chain! Do you really think you can just yank my chain whenever you want?
yank something off
to pull or jerk off something, such as a piece of clothing. She yanked her jacket off. She yanked off her jacket and threw it on the chair.
yank something up
to pull or jerk something up. He yanked his pants up. He yanked up his pants and threw on his shirt.
beat the dummy
and beat the meat and beat one’s meat and beat the pup and choke the chicken and pound one’s meat and pull one’s pud and pull one’s wire and whip one’s wire and whip the dummy and yank one’s strap tv. to masturbate. (Usually objectionable.) Are you going to sit around all day pulling your pud? We heard him in there “choking the chicken,” as the street crowd says.
yank one’s strap
verbyank
2. n. a Yankee; a U.S. soldier. (Usually Yank.) I don’t care if you call me a yank. That’s what I am.
3. in. to vomit. Somebody or some animal yanked on the driveway.
yank someone around
tv. to harass someone; to give someone a hard time. (see also
jerk someone around.)
Please stop yanking me around. yank someone’s chain
and pull someone’s chain tv. to harass someone; to give someone a hard time. (As if one were a dog wearing a choker collar, on a leash.) Stop yanking my chain, you twit! Do you really think you can just pull my chain whenever you want?
yank someone’s crank
tv. to tease a male sexually. Don’t pay any attention to her. She’s just yanking your crank.
yanked
mod. arrested. (Underworld.) Lefty got himself yanked one too many times.