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yankees

yankees is the plural of yankee.

Meaning of yankee

Noun

yankee (plural yankees)

  1. A headsail resembling a genoa or a jib but with a high-cut clew, normally used together with a staysail. A sailing boat is typically equipped with three yankee sails of different sizes, number one being the largest.

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Noun capitalized: Yankees

Yankees

  1. (plural) plural of Yankee

Proper noun capitalized: Yankees

the Yankees

  1. The team New York Yankees.

Phrases with yankees

Questions about yankees

What does yankees mean?
Yankees means the team New York Yankees.
What is yankees the plural of?
Yankees is the plural of yankee.
What part of speech is yankees?
Yankees can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near yankees in the dictionary

  1. Yankeeized
  2. Yankeeizes
  3. Yankeeizing
  4. Yankeeland
  5. Yankeeness
  6. yankees
  7. Yankees Creek
  8. Yankeese
  9. Yankeetown
  10. yankeeweed
  11. Yankelovich

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yankees (page history and authors); Yankees (page history and authors); yankee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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