yoink

Meanings

Verb

• To make a yoink sound.
• To hop or bounce.
• To kill.
• To yank or snatch.
• To steal.
• To take or win (something that others want).

Noun

• An ordinary person with nothing to recommend them.

Interjection

• Onomatopoeic, accompanying or describing a yank, swipe, or snatch.

Origin

• 1954. Onomatopoeic.
• Coined by writer George Meyer for the TV show The Simpsons; perhaps from yank, or imitative of the sound effect (a quick upward slide on a violin) that accompanies something being snatched in classic comedies.