Yank
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Yank may refer to:
- Yank, the Army WeeklyYank, the Army WeeklyYank, the Army Weekly was a weekly magazine published by the United States military during World War II. The idea for the magazine came from Egbert White, who had worked on Stars and Stripes during World War I. He proposed the idea to the Army in early 1942, and accepted a commission as Lieutenant...
, a newspaper for American soldiers during World War II - Yank (physics), the rate of change in force
- YanksYanksYanks is a 1979 John Schlesinger film, set in World War II in the village of Dobcross, in Greater Manchester, England. Starring Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Lisa Eichhorn, Rachel Roberts and Tony Melody....
, a 1979 film - Short form of YankeeYankeeThe term Yankee has several interrelated and often pejorative meanings, usually referring to people originating in the northeastern United States, or still more narrowly New England, where application of the term is largely restricted to descendants of the English settlers of the region.The...
, a slang term for someone of American origin or heritage- A member of the United States soccer teamUnited States men's national soccer teamThe United States men's national soccer team represents the United States in international association football competitions. It is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and competes in CONCACAF...
- A member of the United States soccer team
- New York YankeesNew York YankeesThe New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...
, a Major League BaseballMajor League BaseballMajor League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
team nicknamed the "Yanks" - Yank AdamsYank AdamsFrank B. Adams, commonly known as Yank Adams, was a professional carom billiards player specializing in finger billiards, in which a player manipulates the balls with his or her hands directly, instead of with an implement such as a cue stick, often by twisting the ball between the thumb and the...
, a professional billiards player specializing in finger billiards - Yank RachellYank RachellJames "Yank" Rachell was an American country blues musician, dubbed an "elder statesman of the blues."-Career:...
, a bluesman, mandolin and guitar player. - Yank, the name for the copy command in viVivi is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs based on it, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by the Single Unix Specification and POSIX.The original code for vi...
and the paste command in EmacsEmacsEmacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
, two commonly used UNIX/Linux text editors. - Yank (Automobile)Yank (Automobile)The Yank was a vehicle made by Custom Auto Works, a company based in San Diego, California, in 1950. Being what could be described as a poor man's sports car, it was an inexpensive, though rather attractive, aluminum-bodied car. It was powered by a , 134.2 Willys four-cylinder L-head engine mated...
, an unsuccessful American sports car - USS Yank (SP-908)USS Yank (SP-908)USS Yank was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.Yank was a motorboat built in 1917 by Julius Peterson at Nyack, New York. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy for World War I service on 8 October 1917 from Mr. N...
, a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919. - Yank!, an off-Broadway play about gay soldiers in World War II.