Yank
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Yank (plural Yanks)
- (US) A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States, especially from New England.
- 1865, unnamed Confederate officer, according to Lieutenant Joseph E. Moody, U.S.V., “Life in Confederate Prisons”, in Civil War Papers, Volume II, Massachusetts Commandery (1900), page 368:
- Halt! come down there, you Yanks, come down!
- 1944, Howard Fast, Freedom Road, M.E. Sharpe, published 1995, →ISBN, page 33:
- “I do wish I might of found you in my sights when you was with them damn Yanks,” Abner added.
- 1865, unnamed Confederate officer, according to Lieutenant Joseph E. Moody, U.S.V., “Life in Confederate Prisons”, in Civil War Papers, Volume II, Massachusetts Commandery (1900), page 368:
- (slang, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, UK, sometimes derogatory, by extension) An American: someone from the United States.
- 1951 June 11, “The Yanks Are Coming: U.S. shows world we are playing for keeps as 4th Division leaves to join Eisenhower's NATO army”, in Life, page 38:
- “This time,” he [General Alphonse-Pierre Juin] told the Yanks, “you have not crossed to win new victories but to preserve peace. […] ”
Synonyms edit
- (inhabitant of the USA): American; see Thesaurus:American
Translations edit
native of the USA
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