Yank is a shortened form of Yankee, a slang term for US citizens.

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 <!-- Yank is apparently his real first name !-->

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

  • Yankee (disambiguation)