Expressing a strong emotional reaction, often for humorous effect.
‘It's finally Friday. Yeet!’
‘I have a full blown anxiety attack now, yeet’
‘Don't forget to yell "YEET!" into your microphone before you do so.’
‘A teammate met his call with a jubilant "yeet" from somewhere across the room.’
‘As the right guard headed to his stall, he uttered two words just audible over the hum of a winning locker room: "Yeet, yeet."’
‘We were watching another dude get lit up and Billy was like 'yeet'.’
‘Imagine how fun it would be to just break everything you have and throw it away. Armchair? Desk lamp? Yeet!’
‘When we finalised plans, we were like "okay, yeet".’
‘Then a friend shared it, and from then it just, like, snowballed. So like, yeet.’
‘"Good morning, students, it is testing week and it's time to slay all day," Andrews said. "Yeet!" Miller chimed in.’
‘That was an awesome episode!! I can't believe it yeet!!’
‘I'll see you later, YEET.’
verb
informal with object, with adverbial of direction
Throw (something) forcefully in a specified direction.
‘my teacher saw a bug on a tissue box so she yeeted it out the door’
‘I'm gonna yeet myself out the window’
‘My new hero is this dog that yeeted a snake into another dimension.’
‘Never before has there been a more inglorious way to yeet yourself into a telephone pole.’
‘You might want to pair up with a friend so they can protect you while you try to yeet your opponent off the nearest cliff.’
‘He deserves to be yeeted into the sun.’
‘There were concerns he might get killed off or yeeted into the future.’
‘The altitude hover is what allows it to stay airborne once its been yeeted into the stratosphere.’
‘I think we can safely yeet these individuals into the sun or at the very least not allow their presence to continue to go unchecked.’
‘It got to the point where I was grabbing every other thing around it and just yeeting the bits and pieces at the crowbar in the hopes of dislodging it.’
‘He was also unceremoniously yeeted off the edge of some battlements by his brother ’
‘We get to see this harassing freak get yeeted down the stairs by our feminist heroine.’
Origin
Early 21st century origin uncertain; popularized by videos on the former social media service Vine.
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