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Yank

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Yank
steamship stoker vainly tries to climb the social ladder, then fails in attempt to avenge himself on society. [Am. Drama: O’Neill The Hairy Ape in Sobel, 339]
See : Failure
(jargon)yank - (From the colloquial meaning "to pull suddenly") To insert a copy of some saved text at the current position in a document being edited.

The term is used in the Unix text editors GNU Emacs and vi but "paste" is more common elsewhere.
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Dat overseer wuz a Yank too, outen New Englan', en anybody down South kin tell you what dat mean.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
In these days Adam Ladd sometimes went to Temperance on business connected with the proposed branch of the railroad familiarly known as the "York and Yank 'em," and while there he gained an inkling of Sunnybrook affairs.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
I would get hold of something that felt like what I was looking for, and I'd yank it up, and it would be something else.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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