Citations:yoink

English citations of yoink, yoinking, and yoinks

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• 1954, Henry Trefflich, Baynard Kendrick, They Never Talk Back, New York: Appleton–Century–Crofts, p 207:

  He's been around crocs and alligators so much that he's learned to talk like them. At least, he can make them understand him. I stood fascinated down at the Reptile Institute listening to Ross go, “Yoink yoink” and seeing a sixteen-foot lovesick alligator, dripping affection, crawl up toward him out of a greenish little pond.

• 1956, H. Minar Shoebotham, Anaconda: Life of Marcus Daly, the Copper King, Mechanicsburg PA: Stackpole, p 2:

  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.

• 1967, John Clellon Holmes, Nothing More to Declare, Dutton, p 39:

  And, anyway, those afternoons led inevitably toward five o'clock, and five o'clock inevitably brought people: Anatole Broyard with that week's facsimile of the Broyard-girl—blonde, tooled, wordless—changing as little, version to version, as Anatole changed from year to year; Robert Lowry as big and bearish in his corduroys as a grizzly with the face of a panda; Marshall McLuhan (when he was in town) improvising ideas like a combination Spengler Picasso and Mort Sahl; little, zany William Poster with his clear, darting eye for subtle values; Chandler Brossard as difficult to crack as a horse chestnut and just as tart when you did; Paul Mazursky doing his funny Brando imitations while Stanley Radulovich did his serious ones; 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 walked in the door [. . .]

• 1993, “Duffless”, episode of the Simpsons [television]:

  Marge: But you look better, you don't sweat when you eat any more, and look – [holds up a wad of cash] You've saved more than a hundred dollars. I found it in your pants.

  Homer: [snatches money] Yoink!

• 1995, Steve N.G. Howell and Sophie Webb, A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America, Oxford University Press, p 223:

  Voice. Loud honking and yelping cries, often repeated tirelessly early and late in the day: yoink yoink yoink . . . or kyeh-kyeh-kyeh . . ., etc.; also gruff low urmmff.

• 1999, Edmund Morris, Dutch: a memoir of Ronald Reagan, Random House, p 245:

  Throughout his speech there was this yoink, yoink, yoink of heavy boots on the roof. Alexander Knox says Reagan spoke so fast that he seemed to be talking out of both sides of his mouth at once. Some liberals, including Alex and Katie Hepburn and Edward G. Robinson tried to interrupt him, but when they rose, down the aisles came a troop of IA goons slapping bicycle chains against the chair legs, causing such a row that the resolution never got off the floor.” ¶ “Yoink yoink. Slap slap. Quite a noisy evening.”

• 2001, Victoria Schlesinger, Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya: A Guide, University of Texas Press, p 193:

  It honks “yoink, yoink, yoink” over and over, often in the mornings and evenings (Howell and Webb 1995).

• 2003, Mickle Brandt Maher, Master Stitchum and the Moon, Bollix Books, p 42:

  “He yoinked my piece right out from under me!”

• 2009, Douglas Coupland, Generation A, Random House, pp 10–11:

  “I . . . we . . . your father and I, we have some news for you.” ¶ Yoinks. I braced myself for the worst, my brain already screaming for coffee. ¶ “We've had a discussion, and we thought we should tell you something.” ¶ Cancer? Bankruptcy? Double yoinks. “What's wrong?”

• 2012, Lauren Kate, Passion, Random House Digital, p 174:

  “Here,” he said, holding out a dark mink coat. “Thought you might be cold.” ¶ “Where did you—” ¶ “I yoinked it off a broad coming home from the market back there. Don't worry, she had enough natural padding already.”