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Yank, n.2 (a.)
1. Colloq. abbreviation of Yankee.
1778Conquerors 14 Give me five hundred brave and chosen men, I'll drive the Yanks from north to south again. 1834R. H. Froude in Newman's Lett. (1891) II. 77 The Yank edition of the ‘Christian Year’. 1872Schele de Vere Amer. 23 During the war the Yanks became the universal designation of Federal soldiers in the Confederacy, even as they were called Rebs—not Rebels—by Northern men. 1886All Year Round 14 Aug. 35 As clever at a trick as a Yank.
2. An American car.
1959Listener 4 June 982/1 The young labourer..will invest his cash in buying a car ‘on the 'ire’—not a modest second-hand British product but a ‘big Yank’. 1977Hot Car Oct. 11/3 It's not raunchy like a yank but it sure is clean and ripe for customising.
3. Comb. ˈYankland nonce-wd., the land of the Yankees, America.
1834R. H. Froude in Newman's Lett. (1891) II. 37 When I shall go to Yankland I do not know. |