yanking

Verb

yank (third-person singular simple present yanks, present participle yanking, simple past and past participle yanked)

1. (transitive) To pull (something) with a quick, strong action.
   • Now a white-backed rams its head down the wildebeest’s throat and yanks out an eight-inch length of trachea, ribbed like a vacuum hose.2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2015

   Synonyms:

   jerk, tug

2. (informal, transitive) To remove; to recall or revoke.
   • They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.

   Synonyms:

   pull

3. (ambitransitive, slang) To masturbate.
   • In the dark protection of the auditorium and his Baltimore cape, with two coiled females only inches beneath his feet, completely in his power and ignorant of the invisible force that held them captive, only this shadow knew, the True Dildough, with great pleasure and tremendous gutsy motions...1978, Larry Kramer, Faggots, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, pages 68–69

   Synonyms:

   abuse, bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, crank one out, fap, frig, goon, jack off

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