plural of Yanke

(Australia, slang) A large American car. / (US, slang) A pre-1960 American car in Cuba, imported before the US embargo

To remove something, like a piece of cloth or bread, by tearing it with one quick strong pull. / (UK, Ireland, vulgar) to masturbate.

(informal, business) A model of employee productivity in which workers are ranked into the top 20 percent, the adequate 70 percent, or the bottom 10 percent, and those in the bottom group are fired.

(US, dated) A soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War. / (by extension) The Union in general.

plural of Yank tank

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yank someone's chain

present participle of yank someone's chain

simple past tense and past participle of yank someone's chain

(idiomatic) To tease someone; to lead someone on; to goad someone into overreacting. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yank, chain.