Yank (disambiguation)
# Yank (disambiguation)

Yank is a shortened form of Yankee, a slang term for an American.

Yank or Yanks may also refer to:

## 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"
* An infrequent nickname of the United States men's national soccer team

## Arts and entertainment

* Yanks, a 1979 film
* The Yank, a 2014 American comedy film
* 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

## Transportation and vehicles

* 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

## Other uses

* Yank, the Army Weekly, a magazine for American soldiers during World War II
* Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California
* Yank (physics), a rarely used unit in physics
