“Yeet” is at once an older and newer coinage, and by far the more confounding.
#Yoink urban dictionary series#
For their part, The Simpsons writers have alluded to an onomatopoeic origin in earlier cartoon franchises “yoink” is the approximate transliteration of the sound cue for sudden theft in Hanna-Barbera series like Scooby-Doo (which also includes the interjection “zoinks”), and may have figured in Archie Comics as well. On the etymological side, its resemblance to “yank” can be no accident, and indeed it might be read as a goofy distortion of that verb. “Yoink” as we know it was established earlier, and with a more specific application - it entered public consciousness through The Simpsons, whose characters routinely deploy it in the act of snatching, grabbing or stealing an item, typically right out of someone else’s hands.Īlthough its roots are mysterious, “yoink” is the plausible synthesis of two antecedents.
To answer that, we’ll first need to examine “yoink” and “yeet” in relative isolation. But does all this add up to a valid proof of their inverse definitions?Ī “yeet” is nature’s evolutionary response to the “yoink” They are, in a manner of speaking, both memes.
Both words carry an implied exclamation point, and neither would be immediately comprehensible to an English speaker in the mid-20th century. An economy of letters but a sharp divergence of sound. There’s a pleasing balance to the formulation. Even if you haven’t thought of it this way, you’ll note a stab of recognition at this hypothesis: “Yoink” is the opposite of “Yeet.” Pop culture and youth slang play a considerable role in generating these fluid systems of meaning, such that a couple of nonsense syllables borne out of jokes may, over time, prove to be useful and complementary terms, each one honed by the other. Language is wondrously malleable, and it never stays the same for long, but even in rapid change it rebuilds an internal, often unspoken logic. By the same token, it seems as though a term cannot come into existence without acquiring an antonym - in order to describe something, there must be an opposite quality, the shadow or reflection. like if you knock someone/something over, if you steal something from someone, if something goes flying, etc.All physics students learn Newton’s third law of motion: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. I think it is just kind of like an exclamation/sound effect, if you will, used when something funny happens.
I was mistaken I think about what I said about it being used when something goes flying. I would recommend you just listen and pay attention to when the streamers say it because it is almost always in direct response/direct correlation to something that happened or something they did! I hope this helps a bit! 😁Īctually I agree with too. like if you knock someone/something over, if you steal something from someone, if something goes flying, etc. For example, Dang his sandwich just got yoinked right out of his hand by a seagull (actually happened to my brother in law) Otherwise I’d probably say “Dang, his sandwich just got snatched right out of his hands by a seagull” -there are a lot of words that mean steal, but this one is commonly used. I have heard it used with the other meaning though to mean like to steal. If I were playing halo or something and got catapulted by something or went flying or shot something or exploded something to go flying I might say “yoink!” while laughing In your situation they’re probably saying it when something goes flying. I’ve heard yoink with both of these meanings.
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