yoink

Verb (1)

yoink (third-person singular simple present yoinks, present participle yoinking, simple past and past participle yoinked)

1. (onomatopoeic) To make an oinking sound.
   • Outside in the fog and the damp and cool air, common to County Cavan, he strode briskly along the road and when he arrived Cummings was already out and busy and the pigs—a big drove of them—were yoinking for their feed.1956, H. Minar Shoebotham, Anaconda: Life of Marcus Daly, the Copper King, Mechanicsburg PA: Stackpole, p 2
2. (colloquial) To hop or bounce.
   • Carl Solomon yoinking around so frenziedly on a pogo stick that one night he put the end of it right through the floor into the restaurant below -- and all their girls, and their friends' girls, and their friends' friends, and even nameless others who may have just heard the hubbub and walkin in...2013, Phil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture, →ISBN, page 62
3. nonce word for an action that impacts on something, especially if it is sudden.
   • All of the clout is upstairs, yoinking around with meetings and that.2012, Chris Bunch, Star Risk, LTD., →ISBN
   • Por supuesto, Ethan Suva yoinked the silence.2017, JoAnna Novak, I Must Have You: A Novel, →ISBN
4. (slang) To kill.
   • I'll be going along, doing my starving-writer thing, free from the shackles of 'The Tube'; and, suddenly, my inspiration will die. Just gone, yoinked like a plug.2013, Aaron Garrison, Synchronicity: One Man's Experience, →ISBN, page 123
   • "By all indications, the closet was just where the killah left her." He flipped through his notebook and then back, verifying his info. Good cop, Bubo thought. Thorough. "Yup," he said, tapping the page. “By all indications, it looks like she got herself yoinked someplace else.”2016, Thom Carnell, Moonlight Serenades

Noun

yoink (plural yoinks)

1. (slang) An ordinary person with nothing to recommend them.
   • Yessir, we need you Yoinks. You're all we have, you are.1969, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Saturday Review - Volume 52, page 49
   • You are all a bunch of yoinks who insult Budda!1999 March 28, Robert Mulroy, “You are all a bunch of yoinks who insult Budda!”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet)

Interjection (1)

1. (colloquial) Used for emphasis or to express that one is impressed.
   • Back in a pool game, Lindsey comes by between shots and leans over my shoulder and whispers, "Don't look now, but that blonde girl is checking you out." YOINK!2005, Adam Harris, A Single Southerner Across America, →ISBN, pages 16–17
   • yoink! The US will never close the border to Mexico. Politicians here don't have the political will to do such thing.2009 May 5, Dias Leonardo, “yoink!”, in politics.r.us (Usenet)

Interjection (2)

1. (colloquial) Onomatopoeic, accompanying or describing a yank, swipe, or snatch.
   • Marge: But you look better, you don't sweat when you eat any more, and look – [holds up a wad of cash] You've saved more than a hundred dollars. I found it in your pants.
     Homer: [snatches money] Yoink!1993, “Duffless”, episode of the Simpsons [television]
   • Yoink! He snatched Granny Glee's frilly pink hat with his little feet.2012, John Sazaklis, Candy Store Caper, →ISBN, page 24

Verb (2)

yoink (third-person singular simple present yoinks, present participle yoinking, simple past and past participle yoinked)

1. (colloquial) To yank or snatch.
   • I'm sure that there is pinching, punching, eye gouging, yoinking, hair pulling and who knows what else underneath where eyes can't follow, but he comes out and hands the referee the ball and hits the line again.2010, Sandy Burgess Livermore, Stealing Home, →ISBN
   • The first time he yoinked at my arm all three of us–me, doctor and bed –flew across the room.2012, Geordan Murphy, The Outsider, →ISBN
2. (colloquial) To steal.
   • At the far end of the Shrine stands the Coronation Chair, built for Edward I; the shelf below the seat was made to house the Scottish Stone of Scone, which the sticky-fingered Edward yoinked in 1296 ...2002, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go 2003: Britain & Ireland, page 111
   • I broke-and-entered the clinic last night and yoinked em.'2008, Paul McDonald, Do I Love You?, page 155
3. (colloquial) To take or win (something that others want).
   • Jonas thinks he's such a free fucking spirit for sporting that Revolutionary War–esque overcoat he yoinked from that thrift shop in Philly.2010, Brenna Ehrlich, Andrea Bartz, Stuff Hipsters Hate
   • On my first four turns, I yoinked Australia. Playing Risk with these girls was so fun because in my whole life I've never seen two people happier.2012, Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, →ISBN