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n. - An American (especially to non-Americans).

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Usage examples (9)
  • “Okay, well, what do you think a Yankee-Doodle dandy is then?”
  • When Stranahan started to introduce Hewitt, Levy, from off stage, began playing “Yankee-Doodle.”
  • But the excess of terror seemed to stimulate him, so that almost of their own accord his fingers began to play "Yankee-Doodle."
  • They came from Michigan, and were of the old colony stock, regular Yankee-Doodle folks, the older ones and many of the younger ones still using New England idioms and...
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