yeet

intj

1. (slang)Expressing excitement or approval.

   “The “YEET!” sound effect with the punch at :40”

   “After Richt got his shower, the Miami players surrounding him while yelling “YEET!” in unison.”

   “Often, my teenagers would exclaim "Yeet." I am still not quite sure what it means, but I knew they liked to say it, and it was usually after something positive.”

2. (slang)A sudden expression used while throwing something, especially with force.

   “Towards the end of the fire, Kelling overheard the student talking to his friends about “yeeting” his “Speak Freely” into the fire... [He] ran up to the fence and threw his book toward the fire, yelling out “yeet” while he threw it.”

noun

1. A type of dance involving dipping one's shoulder and swinging both hands out, while an audience repeatedly chants "YEET yah, yah, yah, yah".

   “Yeet is the new twerk and while it may look like nothing more than a full-body flail, there are some very important techniques you need to know before you embark on your own yeet adventure. Here are seven different ways you can yeet.”

   “Meechie's videos reach hundreds of thousands, sometimes even eclipsing the views of the artists' official visuals, but lately his biggest successes are instead dedicated to specific dances like the whip, yeet, and even the still-regional “Hit Dem Folks” dance, which mimics a basketball player dunking.”

   “The yeet began, culturally, with a Vine of a kid affectionately nicknamed Lil Meatball doing the dance on his school's track.”

   “Especially black teens, who created a disproportionate number of popular Vines and used the social network to demonstrate wit, intelligence, creativity, and comic timing that was rarely given a spotlight elsewhere. That included dance trends like the yeet.”

verb

1. (slang, transitive)To throw (something) with great force; to hurl.

   “yeet the baby”

   “Towards the end of the fire, Kelling overheard the student talking to his friends about "yeeting" his "Speak Freely" into the fire...[He] ran up to the fence and threw his book toward the fire, yelling out "yeet" while he threw it.”

   “It's the moment the troll lifts up a lump of turf and yeets it at a hero on a horse”

   “[A] “Yeeting Zone” is going to be established to solve the problem of dangerous VK bottle yeeting. This comes after unsuspecting Notts students have fallen victim to having bottles thrown in their face...He hopes that this new arrangement will allow clubbers to yeet their VKs, whilst ensuring that other clubbers stay safe.”

   “Brady gladly participated and yeeted (maybe the past tense of yeet, meaning to throw, is "yote"?) a football through Damon's window.”

2. (intransitive, slang, uncommon)To move quickly; to dash, zoom.

   “All of a sudden he yeeted out of here [on] a dodo.”

   “[Y]our main character can yeet his way around town instead of walking...When you’re not yeeting around town at 100km/ph^([sic]), you’ll be traversing Jail Island, beating down baddies and ploughing through the main quest line.”

   “There is also the possibility that [a series featuring Loki] takes place in the version of 2012 where Loki stole the Tesseract and yeeted off to who knows where.”

3. (Internet, intransitive)To self-harm.

   “[Image:] The irrational urge to relive my glory days of yeeting”

   “One Tumblelogger complained that the new vocabulary sounded embarrassing; other Tumbleloggers embraced this language, talking about doing "styros" or announcing their plans to "yeet" later.”

   “Many of these Reddit pages use a series of euphemisms that dehumanize the body. Lacerations are "yeeting," the white flesh just beneath the skin is "styrofoam," and "beans" are the bubbles of fat deeper underneath the skin.”

   “Having extreme urges, I need to YEET please help me, I don’t know what to do”

   “Too many adds^([sic]) per test. There were 4 in my test 1 banner ad. And 3 that took me out of the test. I may use again but over time this would cause me to yeet”

4. (obsolete)To ye (address with the pronoun "ye").