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yeet

[yeet]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

interjection

(an exclamation of enthusiasm, approval, triumph, pleasure, joy, etc.).
If we're lucky, all of Wisconsin will be yelling “Yeet!” when the Packers make a second trip to Tampa this year.

verb (used with object)

to hurl or move forcefully.
Somebody just yeeted a water bottle into the crowd.
He's an early riser, so his mom never had to yeet him out of bed!

verb (used without object)

to move forcefully or quickly.
My cat yeeted out of there in a big hurry.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of yeet¹

First recorded in 2005–10; exclamation of excitement that spread as the name of a dance in Black social media culture

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If someone in his life was relentlessly critical — no matter how difficult things can be — I’d yeet them into the sun.

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In Week 1506 we once again asked for poems using terms newly added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, from “adorkable” to “yeet.”

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On her office windowsill sits a framed nameplate with one of her best-known catchphrases on TikTok: “Yeet the Teet,” slang for removing breasts.

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Yeet is either “used to express surprise, approval, or excited enthusiasm” or as a verb to mean “to throw especially with force and without regard for the thing being thrown,” according to Merriam-Webster’s definition.

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Finding out that shrinkflation, adorkable, subvariant and even pumpkin spice are now officially in the dictionary might make you exclaim “Yeet!”

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