Definition of "Yank"

Yank

/jæŋk/

noun
plural Yanks
1. (US) A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States, especially from New England.
  Quotations
  Halt! come down there, you Yanks, come down!
  1865, unnamed Confederate officer, according to Lieutenant Joseph E. Moody, U.S.V., “Life in Confederate Prisons”, in Civil War Papers, Volume II, Massachusetts Commandery (1900), page 368
  “I do wish I might of found you in my sights when you was with them damn Yanks,” Abner added.
  1944, Howard Fast, Freedom Road, M.E. Sharpe, published 1995, page 33
  Corporal Bob explained, “The Yanks has tha best weapons. But us Rebs know how to shoot tha damn things. […] ”
  2004, O. K. Williams, The Way the Cards Fall, Trafford Publishing, page 16
2. (slang, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, UK, sometimes derogatory, by extension) An American: someone from the United States.
  Quotations
  “This time,” he [General Alphonse-Pierre Juin] told the Yanks, “you have not crossed to win new victories but to preserve peace. […] ”
  1951 June 11, “The Yanks Are Coming: U.S. shows world we are playing for keeps as 4th Division leaves to join Eisenhower's NATO army”, in Life, page 38