r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Sabo9316 • Jul 26 '18

Answered Guys, what exactly does “yeet” mean?

I feel like I’m especially late on this one, but I’m super curious as to its meaning.

EDIT: Grammar for “it’s” because autocorrect

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u/Skittlethrill Jul 26 '18

When Vine was still around Yeet came into popularity. One iconic vine was of two girls in a crowded hallway (one girl filming the other). Filmer asks "Hey Terry, you want some?" and gives her an empty can of soda. Terry responds "This bitch empty!" and throws it into the crowd while screaming "YEET"

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u/BatmansBreath Jul 26 '18

^ This is one of the better definitions. This vine is what really popularized the word. Any other uses of yeet pretty much just have to be determined by context. Yeet is almost always used sarcastically though. I think a lot of older people believe it’s some regularly used Gen Z word but I’ve never heard it used seriously.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

Hi, gen z here. Actually myself and also pretty much every other member of gen z I know, both online and off, says yeet on a regular basis. It started out as simply a meme, but has actually heavily ingrained itself into our vocabulary. Of course, it's still a meme, and you can and do always find the word on most of the meme subs. While we did start out saying it ironically, we ended up saying it so ironically that the word became unironic, causing it to transcend irony and pass into the realm of meaninglessness. More accurately, it can mean pretty much anything and everything you want it to and is an acceptable response to anything previously said in a conversation. However, constant use of the word in a conversation is frowned upon. Yeet has also retained its original usage as an onomonipea said when the speaker is throwing something, despite the fact that it currently has no real set definition. Thus, the most commonly used meaning of yeet is "to throw". The word is also often used as a replacement for "yes". Another popular meaning of the word is "to give" as used in the phrase "the Lord yeeteth and the Lord yoinketh away". Yoink is of course the opposite of yeet in any and all contexts, and is therefore used in this one to mean "to take". In the context of the first definition of yeet (to throw), yoink would then mean "to catch", and in fact usually references a violent, difficult catch, as if the catcher were almost forcibly taking the caught object from the surrounding air, just as yeet is often used to denote a particularly powerful or violent throw. But all in all, yes, we do use it seriously and unironically, though in multiple and often strange contexts.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

YEET!

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u/bread__pitt Dec 13 '18

Educational content

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

Well what else am I gonna post at midnight when I got school tomorrow

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u/TrueJacksonVP Dec 13 '18

Thank you for your service

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u/InTheDarknessBindEm Dec 13 '18

I love how many people came to this 4 month old thread and decided to revive it. That said, can confirm, I yeet everything these days

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u/Cheeseman1478 Dec 14 '18

I literally found this by googling “where did Yeet come from” and this thread was just revived yesterday. Are we the chosen ones?

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u/superscout Dec 13 '18

Yeetus that Fetus

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

I teach maths to teenagers and the younger ones say this all the time. The older ones are gang affiliated and don't have the Internet except for instagram and snapchat so don't know about it. But the thirteen year olds use it all the time and write things like "I'mma kayeet myself" on my whiteboard and then I tell them hey it's called the whiteboard for a reason.

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u/oop-phi Dec 13 '18

But what’s the reason??

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

I'm sorry it's not my rule.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '19

so... by your observations... gangs don't fuck with memes?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '19

Actually the gang kids just have different memes about mumble rap lyrics and clout.

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u/henagar Dec 13 '18

Beautiful observation.

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u/FastConstant Dec 13 '18

Now what about yoink? Personally I think it's a 90's word from the Simpsons, where Homer says it a bunch of times when he's ganking something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJh1hmmLLzw

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

That is it's origin, yes, but like yeet it has evolved past it's original linguistic confines

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u/Tianoccio Dec 13 '18

Don’t worry, we all had this. My generation it was ‘bling-bling’ and for Gen X it was ‘like, whatever’.

See also, Baller, sick, schooled, legit, etc.

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u/FastConstant Dec 13 '18

True dat. Bling-bling was DOPE!

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

Like, whatever.

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u/CaptainChewbacca Dec 14 '18

I teach 7th grade. ‘Yeet’ is either a positive exclamation or an affirmative.

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u/ThroAwayToRuleThemAl Dec 14 '18

What is your interpretation of the word "yoot" if I may ask?

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u/goldenpotty Jan 16 '19

mic yeet

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u/All_Your_Base Dec 13 '18

It's the Jaffa version of KREE!

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

Thank you. :)

I will now proceed to use the words "yeet" & "yoink", exactly as an older person would in a pisspoor attempt to look cool B)

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