yeet

Formsyeets, yeeting, yeeted

Pluralyeets

1. 1
   throw hardverbslangtransitive

   To throw something violently, with all one's strength.

   She yeeted the empty bottle into the recycling bin from across the room.

   Don't yeet your phone onto the bed like that.

   UsageOften with a direction: yeet it into the bin, onto the bed. Past: yeeted, sometimes yote.

   Similarhurl, fling, chuck, toss, launch

   Note

   Its past is usually yeeted, but yote also turns up. That form is a playful strong past, patterned on pairs like write and wrote. The -ing form slips easily into a noun, as in a 2019 student-news story about a "Yeeting Zone" for safe bottle yeeting. Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 1 fact

   • A 2019 student-news story used “Yeeting Zone” in connection with safe bottle throwing. thetab.com
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   excitementinterjectionslang

   An exclamation of excitement, approval or enthusiasm, often shouted while throwing something.

   When the final buzzer sounded and his team had won, my brother leaped off the couch and shouted, "Yeet!"

   The crowd shouted “yeet” when the band walked onstage.

   UsageUsually shouted on its own: Yeet!

   Similarwoohoo, yay, yes, hooray

   Note

   A cry of celebration that caught on in 2014, when the word went viral with the Vine dance. Caroline Fenkel, writing in 2017 about her teenagers, admitted she was not sure what it meant, only that it followed something good. Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 2 facts

   • Yeet gained wider popularity in 2014 through viral dance videos on Vine. languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
   • In 2017, Caroline Fenkel wrote that her teenagers said “Yeet,” that she did not quite understand it, and that it usually followed something positive. en.wiktionary.org
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   dancenouncountable

   A dance in which the dancer dips one shoulder and swings both hands outward while onlookers repeatedly chant the name.

   The yeet was everywhere at school dances that year.

   He pulled off a perfect yeet as the crowd chanted along.

   UsageUsually the yeet: do the yeet.

   Note

   Its beginnings are usually pinned to a single clip. Rembert Browne traced the yeet to a Vine of a kid nicknamed Lil Meatball dancing on his school's track, and by 2015 it was named alongside the whip among viral dance trends. The chanted "YEET yah, yah" is part of the performance. The name doubles as a verb for doing the dance, as in "seven different ways you can yeet." Source

   Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 5 facts

   • The clip helped popularize the dance; an earlier dance video is documented on YouTube, uploaded February 3, 2014. en.wiktionary.org
   • Rembert Browne traced the dance's cultural beginnings to a Vine showing Lil Meatball dancing on his school's track. grantland.com
   • By 2015, yeet was named alongside the whip among popular dances. vice.com
   • The performance includes the chant 'YEET yah, yah'. en.wiktionary.org
   • The quoted wording 'seven different ways you can yeet' is attested with yeet meaning to perform the dance. en.wiktionary.org
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   dashverbslangintransitive

   To move very quickly; to dash or zoom.

   They yeeted out the door the moment class ended.

   Let's yeet over to the food trucks before the line gets long.

   UsageUsually with a direction word: yeet out the door, yeet over to the trucks.

   Similardash, zoom, bolt, zip, scoot

   Note

   Here the speaker does the flying instead of the object, as if the throwing verb were turned on oneself.

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