Definition of Yankee

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Yankee

A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States.

Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees.

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Yankee Quotations

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle," and the other isn't.
Ulysses S. Grant

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
Derek Jeter

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.
Derek Jeter

I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.
Joe DiMaggio

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Mickey Mantle

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
Randy Harrison

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.
Reggie Jackson

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.
Henry A. Wallace

I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest.
Billy Martin

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
Alice Hoffman

Yankee Translations

yankee in French is yankee
Yankee in Hungarian is jenki
Yankee in Spanish is yanqui
yankee in Swedish is amerikan

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