yeet · interjection, noun, verb1
Popularized in March 2014 by the "yeet" dance which went viral on the now-defunct video sharing site Vine. The earliest known yeet dance is recorded in a YouTube video uploaded on February 3, 2014. However, examples of the interjection can be found much earlier, including a 1998 use by British presenter Jeremy Clarkson as well as a 2008 definition of "yeet yeet" on Urban Dictionary. As an expression used when throwing something, apparently coined by Vine user David Banna in a Vine uploaded on or before March 28, 2014 in which he throws a CD and yells out "YEET!", as well as a Vine uploaded April 4, 2014 of a high school student hurling an empty soda can and shouting "This bitch empty! YEET!" After the 2014 trend, the term faded into relative obscurity before resurging in 2018.
yeet · verb2
- Middle English · derived fromye
- Middle English · inherited fromyeten
- English todayyeet
From Middle English yeten, ȝeten, from Middle English ye, ȝe (“ye”) + -ten. Compare Middle English thouten.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishyeten all →
Middle Englishye all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.