# yeet

Pronunciation: say "YEET" /jiːt/

## Verb

1. To throw something violently, with all one's strength. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To throw something hard, fast, and usually far.
   - _She yeeted the empty bottle into the recycling bin from across the room._
   - _Don't yeet your phone onto the bed like that._
4. To move very quickly; to dash or zoom. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To go somewhere very fast or rush off.
   - _They yeeted out the door the moment class ended._
   - _Let's yeet over to the food trucks before the line gets long._

## Interjection

2. An exclamation of excitement, approval or enthusiasm, often shouted while throwing something. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A shout of excitement or approval, often made when 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._

## Noun

3. A dance in which the dancer dips one shoulder and swings both hands outward while onlookers repeatedly chant the name.
   - Simple: A dance where you dip one shoulder and swing both hands out while people chant the name.
   - _The yeet was everywhere at school dances that year._
   - _He pulled off a perfect yeet as the crowd chanted along._

## Verb

5. To address someone with the pronoun “ye.” *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To speak to someone using the old word “ye.”

## Other meanings

- (verb) To deliberately injure oneself.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–4** — The word was popularized in March 2014 by the "yeet" dance that went viral on Vine, though the interjection appears much earlier, including a 1998 use by British presenter Jeremy Clarkson and a 2008 Urban Dictionary entry. As an expression used when throwing something, it was apparently coined by Vine user David Banna in early 2014; after the 2014 trend it faded before resurging in 2018.
**Meaning 5** — Middle English formed yeten, also spelled ȝeten, by attaching the ending -ten to the pronoun ye or ȝe. Compare Middle English thouten, a similar formation.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/yeet (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).