yoink

present singular third person yoinks · participle present yoinking · participle past yoinked · past yoinked

1. onomatopoeicTo 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. colloquialTo hop or bounce.

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   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 the door.

   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.

   Por supuesto, Ethan Suva yoinked the silence.

   2017, JoAnna Novak, I Must Have You: A Novel, →ISBN

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   All of the clout is upstairs, yoinking around with meetings and that.

   2012, Chris Bunch, Star Risk, LTD., →ISBN

4. slangTo kill.

   “DanU? You shittin me?” His eyes got big. He yoinked My Pal Roofie.

   2017, Jason Christian, Aaron Gabel, Rohg to the System, →ISBN

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   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

plural yoinks

1. slangAn ordinary person with nothing to recommend them.

   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)

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   Yessir, we need you Yoinks. You're all we have, you are.

   1969, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Saturday Review - Volume 52, page 49

   The fact that these mentating yoinks don't know what it it, or worse, refuse to even acknowledge its existence pegs their state of awareness.

   1999 November 11, Don James, “WHITE LIGHT”, in alt.zen (Usenet)

   “What a bunch of yoinks we are, indeed,” Garvin said.

   2012, Chris Bunch, Storm Force: Book Three of the Last Legion Series, →ISBN

1. colloquialUsed for emphasis or to express that one is impressed.

   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)

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   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

   “What do you mean, don't kill me?” Major Healy said, sneering. “In case you didn't notice, I'm the one with the weapon.” “Oh, yeah,” Remo said. “Yoink.”

   2016, Richard Sapir, Warren Murphy, The Wrong Stuff, →ISBN

1. colloquialOnomatopoeic, accompanying or describing a yank, swipe, or snatch.

   2021 (November 13) "Olivia & Yunan" (Amphibia s3e7b) Yunan grabbing a crossbow Ooh, ominous. After you, milady. Yoink!

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   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

   The way I've always done this stunt is to grab my partner and jump us over together. It's absolute hell on my knees. I lean toward Brando and raise my eyebrows. “Yoink.” “Definite yoink,” he replies, equally inspired.

   2014, G. T. Almasi, Hammer of Angels: A Novel of Shadowstorm, →ISBN

   YOINK! Coach Pittman snatched the puck out of midair.

   2015, Marty McKnight, Jim Nasium Is a Hockey Hazard, →ISBN, page 42

present singular third person yoinks · participle present yoinking · participle past yoinked · past yoinked

1. colloquialTo yank or snatch.

   "Hey!" some AV kid said when I snuck up behind him and yoinked a microphone from his cart.

   2017, Teddy Steinkellner, Two Roads from Here, →ISBN, page 109

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   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

   That was the stress that yoinked the whole support gantry down— like trying to stop a medium-sized car with one pull.”

   2013, Eric Flint, Ryk E. Spoor, Portal, →ISBN

2. colloquialTo steal.

   He had yoinked dozens off Gav over the years.

   2016, Ben Davies, The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Welcome to Cringefest, →ISBN, page 12

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   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

   Waiters were in on the ruse, and would frequently distract customers in order to facilitate the yoinking of oysters and caviar.

   2017, Nate Crowley, 100 Best Video Games (That Never Existed), →ISBN, page 90

3. colloquialTo 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

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   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