yoink
/jɔɪŋk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
nonce word for an action that impacts on something, especially if it is sudden.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "All of the clout is upstairs, yoinking around with meetings and that."
- "Por supuesto, Ethan Suva yoinked the silence."
- "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."
- ""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.”"
Etymology
1954. Onomatopoeic.