Yank may refer to: Yankee, a slang term, with various meanings, for someone of American origin. It is particularly used in a derogative sense, with connotations of someone from the USA who is arrogant and/or loud-mouthed. 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" "The Yanks", a nickname for: United States men's national soccer team United States men's national under-23 soccer team United States men's national under-21 soccer team United States men's national under-20 soccer team United States men's national under-18 soccer team United States men's national under-17 soccer team United States women's national soccer team United States women's national under-23 soccer team United States women's national under-20 soccer team United States women's national under-17 soccer team Arts and entertainment Yanks, a 1979 film The Yank, a 2014 American comedy film by Sean Lackey 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 Other uses Yank, the Army Weekly, a magazine for American soldiers during World War II 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 Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California Yank (physics), a unit in physics (rate of change of force per unit time) Yank, the name for the copy command in vi and the paste command in Emacs, two commonly used UNIX/Linux text editors