What does yank around mean?

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yank around

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English

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Informal; Transitive verb

yanks around (present, singular) yanking around (participle, present) yanked around (participle, past) yanked around (past)

jerk around

What does yank around mean?: Synonym of jerk around (“to cheat or treat unfairly”).

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