title: Yank (disambiguation)
text: # Yank (disambiguation)
  
  Yank is a shortened form of Yankee, a slang term for an American.
  
  Yank or Yanks may also refer to:
  
  ## Sports teams
  
  * Boston Yanks, a National Football League team from 1944 to 1948
  * New York Yanks, a National Football League team in 1950 and 1951, originally the Boston Yanks
  * New York Yankees, a Major League Baseball team nicknamed the "Yanks"
  * An infrequent nickname of the United States men's national soccer team
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * Yanks, a 1979 film
  * The Yank, a 2014 American comedy film
  * Yank!, an off-Broadway play about homosexual soldiers in World War II
  * Yank, a 1940s comic book superhero - see Yank & Doodle
  * Billy Yank, a protagonist in the 1950s comic strip Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
  
  ## People
  
  * Yank (nickname)
  * Yank Porter (c. 1895–1944), American jazz drummer
  
  ## Transportation and vehicles
  
  * USS Yank (SP-908), a US Navy patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919
  * Yank (automobile), an unsuccessful American sports car produced in 1950
  * Yank, nickname for the Queensland AC16 class locomotive
  * The Yank, nickname of the prototype for the Waveney-class lifeboat
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Yank, the Army Weekly, a magazine for American soldiers during World War II
  * Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California
  * Yank (physics), a rarely used unit in physics
  