yeet
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: yeets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yeets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yeeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yeeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yeeted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: yote
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yote
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Expressing excitement or approval.
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: The “YEET!” sound effect with the punch at :40
After Richt got his shower, the Miami players surrounding him while yelling “YEET!” in unison.
Often, my teenagers would exclaim "Yeet." I am still not quite sure what it means, but I knew they liked to say it, and it was usually after something positive.
gloss: A sudden expression used while throwing something, especially with force.
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: Towards the end of the fire, Kelling overheard the student talking to his friends about “yeeting” his “Speak Freely” into the fire... [He] ran up to the fence and threw his book toward the fire, yelling out “yeet” while he threw it.
gloss: A type of dance involving dipping one's shoulder and swinging both hands out, while an audience repeatedly chants "YEET yah, yah, yah, yah".
pos: noun
examples: Yeet is the new twerk and while it may look like nothing more than a full-body flail, there are some very important techniques you need to know before you embark on your own yeet adventure. Here are seven different ways you can yeet.
Meechie's videos reach hundreds of thousands, sometimes even eclipsing the views of the artists' official visuals, but lately his biggest successes are instead dedicated to specific dances like the whip, yeet, and even the still-regional “Hit Dem Folks” dance, which mimics a basketball player dunking.
The yeet began, culturally, with a Vine of a kid affectionately nicknamed Lil Meatball doing the dance on his school's track.
Especially black teens, who created a disproportionate number of popular Vines and used the social network to demonstrate wit, intelligence, creativity, and comic timing that was rarely given a spotlight elsewhere. That included dance trends like the yeet.
gloss: To throw (something) with great force; to hurl.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: yeet the baby
Towards the end of the fire, Kelling overheard the student talking to his friends about "yeeting" his "Speak Freely" into the fire...[He] ran up to the fence and threw his book toward the fire, yelling out "yeet" while he threw it.
It's the moment the troll lifts up a lump of turf and yeets it at a hero on a horse
[A] “Yeeting Zone” is going to be established to solve the problem of dangerous VK bottle yeeting. This comes after unsuspecting Notts students have fallen victim to having bottles thrown in their face...He hopes that this new arrangement will allow clubbers to yeet their VKs, whilst ensuring that other clubbers stay safe.
Brady gladly participated and yeeted (maybe the past tense of yeet, meaning to throw, is "yote"?) a football through Damon's window.
gloss: To move quickly; to dash, zoom.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
uncommon
examples: All of a sudden he yeeted out of here [on] a dodo.
[Y]our main character can yeet his way around town instead of walking...When you’re not yeeting around town at 100km/ph^([sic]), you’ll be traversing Jail Island, beating down baddies and ploughing through the main quest line.
There is also the possibility that [a series featuring Loki] takes place in the version of 2012 where Loki stole the Tesseract and yeeted off to who knows where.
gloss: To self-harm.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
intransitive
examples: [Image:] The irrational urge to relive my glory days of yeeting
One Tumblelogger complained that the new vocabulary sounded embarrassing; other Tumbleloggers embraced this language, talking about doing "styros" or announcing their plans to "yeet" later.
Many of these Reddit pages use a series of euphemisms that dehumanize the body. Lacerations are "yeeting," the white flesh just beneath the skin is "styrofoam," and "beans" are the bubbles of fat deeper underneath the skin.
Having extreme urges, I need to YEET please help me, I don’t know what to do
Too many adds^([sic]) per test. There were 4 in my test 1 banner ad. And 3 that took me out of the test. I may use again but over time this would cause me to yeet
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