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n. - Someone who gives a strong sudden pull.

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  • Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog: Charles Krauthammer, chain-yanker skip to main
  • Last night some yanker used my name on a thread, so I had to file a complaint with Judd about it.
  • A male friend cut his hair & shaved off his beard for the first time in a decade when it became too much trouble with the little yanker.
  • Who, I take it, is channeled in the final scenes of I Am Sam, as Sean Penn revives a speech from my very favorite 1970s DH tear-yanker, Kramer vs. Kramer.
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