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Yank is a shortened form of Yankee, a slang term for an American.

Yank or Yanks may also refer to:

Sports teams

• Boston Yanks, a National Football League team from 1944 to 1948
• New York Yanks, a National Football League team in 1950 and 1951, originally the Boston Yanks
• New York Yankees, a Major League Baseball team nicknamed the "Yanks"
• An infrequent nickname of the United States men's national soccer team

Arts and entertainment

• Yanks, a 1979 film
• The Yank, a 2014 American comedy film
• Yank!, an off-Broadway play about homosexual soldiers in World War II
• Yank, a 1940s comic book superhero - see Yank & Doodle
• Billy Yank, a protagonist in the 1950s comic strip Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

People

• Yank (nickname)
• Yank Porter (c. 1895–1944), American jazz drummer

Transportation and vehicles

• USS Yank (SP-908), a US Navy patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919
• Yank (automobile), an unsuccessful American sports car produced in 1950
• Yank, nickname for the Queensland AC16 class locomotive
• The Yank, nickname of the prototype for the Waveney-class lifeboat

Other uses

• Yank, the Army Weekly, a magazine for American soldiers during World War II
• Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California
• Yank (physics), a rarely used unit in physics

See also

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• All pages with titles beginning with Yank
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• Yankee (disambiguation)

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