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damn Yankees

damn Yankees is the plural of damn Yankee.

Meaning of damn Yankee

Noun

damn Yankee (plural damn Yankees)

  1. (Southern US) A person from the northern United States (a Yankee) who moves to the South to reside there.
    • REBEL A Damn Yankee comes down here to live.
      KC Well, I came down here to live.
      REBEL Well, you're going back, you said.
      KC Right.
      REBEL You're just a Yankee, not a Damn Yankee. But that's the difference between them.1998, Kimberly J. Cook, Divided passions: public opinions on abortion and the death penalty, page 6
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see damn, Yankee.
    • I was thinking, these damn ghosts are a preset pattern, because they don't even know that I'm not a damn Yankee. "I'm going to die for something I didn't even do."2004, Robert "Dean" D. Russell, The Resurrection of Bayou Savage: Guitar Ghost Fighter, page 52

Questions about damn Yankees

What is damn Yankees the plural of?
Damn Yankees is the plural of damn Yankee.

Words near damn Yankees in the dictionary

  1. damn tooting
  2. damn up
  3. damn well
  4. damn with faint praise
  5. damn Yankee
  6. damn Yankees
  7. damn you
  8. damn you all to hell
  9. damn your eyes
  10. damn your hide
  11. damnability

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