![]() ![]() like if you knock someone/something over, if you steal something from someone, if something goes flying, etc. I think it is just kind of like an exclamation/sound effect, if you will, used when something funny happens. I was mistaken I think about what I said about it being used when something goes flying. I would recommend you just listen and pay attention to when the streamers say it because it is almost always in direct response/direct correlation to something that happened or something they did! I hope this helps a bit! □Īctually I agree with too. ![]() quotations 1999 colloquial Used for emphasis or to express that one is impressed. I think it is just kind of like an exclamation/sound effect, if you will, used when something funny happens. EnglishEdit slang An ordinary person with nothing to recommend them. ![]() For example, Dang his sandwich just got yoinked right out of his hand by a seagull (actually happened to my brother in law) Otherwise I’d probably say “Dang, his sandwich just got snatched right out of his hands by a seagull” -there are a lot of words that mean steal, but this one is commonly used. I have heard it used with the other meaning though to mean like to steal. If I were playing halo or something and got catapulted by something or went flying or shot something or exploded something to go flying I might say “yoink!” while laughing In your situation they’re probably saying it when something goes flying. Yeet, defined as an “indication of surprise or excitement,” was voted the American Dialect Society’s 2018 Slang/Informal Word of the Year.I’ve heard yoink with both of these meanings. They riff on the word yeet in a variety of absurd contexts (perhaps as a commentary on people wearing yeet out), often with images of the face with tears of joy emoji, □. Yeet seemed to fade again in popular culture again until March 2018, when users of the subreddit r/dankmemes-dedicated to so-called dank memes, which are deliberately odd and obscure-started posting new yeet memes. The massively popular, if controversial, YouTuber Logan Paul made a variant, ya yeet, a catchphrase. Gamers took to yeet when making powerful moves. Young people, apparently, delighted in saying yeet, like one of those things we like to say compulsively over and over again until we wear it out. Urban Dictionary, now in its 20th year, is a digital repository that contains more than 8 million definitions and famously houses all manner of slang and cultural expressions. Yeet went viral again in 2016, this time in a video featuring a young woman throwing an empty beverage can into a crowded school hallway while saying Yeet! This video help spread yeet as an exclamation issued when heaving something, often at someone in a playful manner, or when doing something spectacular, as when dunking over someone in basketball. Perhaps because people often say yeet while doing the dance, yeet was further popularized as an interjection all its own to show enthusiasm and approval, e.g., Yes, I got an A on that paper. The memes photoshopped a still of Lil Meatball, arms extended, into various settings, such as playing baseball or drumming. Internet users made remixes of Lil Meatball-and plenty of memes. Yeet went viral Vine user Jas Nicole posted a video of a young man, called Lil Meatball, doing the dance, noted for a prominent arm chop, in March 2014 over the hip-hop track. A hip-hop song by Quill called “YEET” was released, featuring yeet as a general exclamation akin to the earlier, 2008 definitions we saw. More YouTube yeet demonstrations of yeet followed. Several people are credited for the dance, including YouTuber Milik Fullilove, who calls out Yeet! as he does his moves with personal flourishes. The term spreads as a dance in black social media culture in February 2014. It doesn’t sound too dissimilar, after all, from exclamations like Yes! or Aight! Yeet, then, appears to be an organic interjection. ![]() Another defined yeet yeet as an expression of approval, à la That’s what I’m talking about it! Yeet Yeet! An Urban Dictionary entry from 2008 defined yeet as an excited exclamation, particularly in sports and sexual contexts. ![]()
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