Yank vs Yoink - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between yank and yoink

is that yank is to pull something with a quick, strong action while yoink is to make a yoink sound.

is a sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).

onomatopoeic, accompanying or describing a yank, or snatch.

(en noun)

A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).

* jerk, tug

(en verb)

To pull something with a quick, strong action.

to remove from circulation

They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.

* (pull with a quick strong action) jerk, tug * (remove from circulation) pull, recall

1954. Onomatopoeic.

(en verb)

(onomatopoeia) To make a yoink sound.

(colloquial) To hop or bounce.

Coined by writer George Meyer for the TV show

(en interjection)

(colloquial) Onomatopoeic, accompanying or describing a yank, or snatch.

(en verb)

(colloquial) To yank or snatch.