yeet

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /jiːt/ Rhymes: -iːt === Etymology 1 === Popularized in March 2014 by the "yeet" dance which went viral on the now-defunct video sharing site Vine. The earliest known yeet dance is recorded in a YouTube video uploaded on February 3, 2014. However, examples of the interjection can be found much earlier, including a 1998 use by British presenter Jeremy Clarkson as well as a 2008 definition of "yeet yeet" on Urban Dictionary. As an expression used when throwing something, apparently coined by Vine user David Banna in a Vine uploaded on or before March 28, 2014 in which he throws a CD and yells out "YEET!", as well as a Vine uploaded April 4, 2014 of a high school student hurling an empty soda can and shouting "This bitch empty! YEET!" After the 2014 trend, the term faded into relative obscurity before resurging in 2018. ==== Interjection ==== yeet (slang) Expressing excitement or approval. (slang) A sudden expression used while throwing something, especially with force. ==== Noun ==== yeet (plural yeets) A type of dance involving dipping one's shoulder and swinging both hands out, while an audience repeatedly chants "YEET yah, yah, yah, yah". ==== Verb ==== yeet (third-person singular simple present yeets, present participle yeeting, simple past and past participle yeeted or yote) (transitive, slang) To throw (something) with great force; to hurl. (intransitive, slang, uncommon) To move quickly; to dash, zoom. (intransitive, Internet slang) To self-harm. ===== Usage notes ===== The conjugation of this recently-coined term has not been completely determined. === Etymology 2 === From Middle English yeten, ȝeten, from Middle English ye, ȝe (“ye”) + -ten. Compare Middle English thouten. ==== Alternative forms ==== yait, yoit ==== Verb ==== yeet (third-person singular simple present yeets, present participle yeeting, simple past and past participle yeeted) (obsolete) To ye (address with the pronoun "ye"). === References === === Further reading === “yeet”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “yeet”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. === See also === yeet hay === Anagrams === eyet, tyee, yete == Scots == === Adverb === yeet yet === Conjunction === yeet yet