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yeet¹

  • /jiːt/

Rhymes with -iːt

Where it comes from

Popularized in March 2014 by the "yeet" dance which went viral on the now-defunct video sharing site Vine. The earliest known yeet dance is recorded in a YouTube video uploaded on February 3, 2014. However, examples of the interjection can be found much earlier, including a 1998 use by British presenter Jeremy Clarkson as well as a 2008 definition of "yeet yeet" on Urban Dictionary.

As an expression used when throwing something, apparently coined by Vine user David Banna in a Vine uploaded on or before March 28, 2014 in which he throws a CD and yells out "YEET!", as well as a Vine uploaded April 4, 2014 of a high school student hurling an empty soda can and shouting "This bitch empty! YEET!"

After the 2014 trend, the term faded into relative obscurity before resurging in 2018.

interjection

  1. slang Expressing excitement or approval. The “YEET!” sound effect with the punch at :40
  2. slang A sudden expression used while throwing something, especially with force. Towards the end of the fire, Kelling overheard the student talking to his friends about “yeeting” his “Speak Freely” into the fire... [He] ran up to the fence and threw his book toward the fire, yelling out “yeet” while he threw it.

noun yeets

  1. A type of dance involving dipping one's shoulder and swinging both hands out, while an audience repeatedly chants "YEET yah, yah, yah, yah". Yeet is the new twerk and while it may look like nothing more than a full-body flail, there are some very important techniques you need to know before you embark on your own yeet adventure. Here are seven different ways you can yeet.

verb yeets · yeeting · yeeted · yote

  1. slang, transitive To throw (something) with great force; to hurl. yeet the baby
  2. intransitive, slang, uncommon To move quickly; to dash, zoom. All of a sudden he yeeted out of here [on] a dodo.
  3. Internet, intransitive To self-harm. [Image:] The irrational urge to relive my glory days of yeeting

yeet²

  • /jiːt/

Rhymes with -iːt

Where it comes from

From Middle English yeten, ȝeten, from Middle English ye, ȝe (“ye”) + -ten. Compare Middle English thouten.

verb yeets · yeeting · yeeted · yait · yoit

  1. obsolete To ye (address with the pronoun "ye").

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@misc{yeet_2026,
  title = {yeet},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/yeet},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}