yeet

Interjection

1. (slang) Expressing excitement or approval.
   • The “YEET!” sound effect with the punch at :402014 June 11, J. Tinsley, “Now We Know Who Really Lost The Mistah Fab-DJ Mustard Fight”, in Uproxx
   • After Richt got his shower, the Miami players surrounding him while yelling “YEET!” in unison.2017 November 5, Harry Lyles Jr., “Miami players waited to surprise Mark Richt with a Gatorade bath for when they got into the locker room”, in SB Nation
2. (slang) A sudden expression used while throwing something, especially with force.
   • Towards the end of the fire, Kelling overheard the student talking to his friends about “yeeting” his “Speak Freely” into the fire... [He] ran up to the fence and threw his book toward the fire, yelling out “yeet” while he threw it.2018 November 19, Zachary Shevin, “U. community gathers, chants, ‘yeets’ during first bonfire since 2013”, in The Daily Princetonian, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2021

Noun

yeet (plural yeets)

1. A type of dance involving dipping one's shoulder and swinging both hands out, while an audience repeatedly chants "YEET yah, yah, yah, yah".
   • Yeet is the new twerk and while it may look like nothing more than a full-body flail, there are some very important techniques you need to know before you embark on your own yeet adventure. Here are seven different ways you can yeet.2014 April 8, “The 7 Different Ways You Can #Yeet”, in Cambio
   • Meechie's videos reach hundreds of thousands, sometimes even eclipsing the views of the artists' official visuals, but lately his biggest successes are instead dedicated to specific dances like the whip, yeet, and even the still-regional “Hit Dem Folks” dance, which mimics a basketball player...2015 June 1, David Turner, “Interview: Youtube^([sic]) Star SheLovesMeechie Dances from the Garage to the Stage”, in Noisey

Verb (1)

yeet (third-person singular simple present yeets, present participle yeeting, simple past and past participle yeeted or yote)

1. (slang, transitive) To throw (something) with great force; to hurl.
   • yeet the baby
   • Towards the end of the fire, Kelling overheard the student talking to his friends about "yeeting" his "Speak Freely" into the fire...[He] ran up to the fence and threw his book toward the fire, yelling out "yeet" while he threw it.2018 November 19, Zachary Shevin, “U. community gathers, chants, 'yeets' during first bonfire since 2013”, in The Daily Princetonian, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2021
2. (intransitive, slang, uncommon) To move quickly; to dash, zoom.
   • All of a sudden he yeeted out of here [on] a dodo.2018, Loe Swonny, Flyff Apleman, The Minecraft Toilet, page 14
   • [Y]our main character can yeet his way around town instead of walking...When you’re not yeeting around town at 100km/ph^([sic]), you’ll be traversing Jail Island, beating down baddies and ploughing through the main quest line.2019 March 19, Leah Williams, “The best part about One Piece: World Series is all the yeeting”, in The AU Review, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2021
3. (Internet, intransitive) To self-harm.
   • [Image:] The irrational urge to relive my glory days of yeeting2021 December 19, Sarah McManus, anonymous quotee, “Self-Harm Memes: Healthy or Harmful?”, in The Blade and Beyond, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2024
   • One Tumblelogger complained that the new vocabulary sounded embarrassing; other Tumbleloggers embraced this language, talking about doing "styros" or announcing their plans to "yeet" later.2022 January 29, Federica Guccini, Gerald McKinley, “"How deep do I have to cut?": Non-suicidal self-injury and imagined communities of practice on Tumblr”, in Social Science & Medicine, volume 296...

Verb (2)

yeet (third-person singular simple present yeets, present participle yeeting, simple past and past participle yeeted)

1. (obsolete) To ye (address with the pronoun "ye").