ENTRY NO. 0229 EXAMINED 2026-08-29 3 CONFIGURATIONS ON FILE

YEET

01 THROW WITH FORCE 02 EXPRESS DISMISSAL 03 TO LAUNCH OR REMOVE ONESELF FROM A SITUATION DRAMATICALLY, OFTEN REFLEXIVELY
SENSE 01 verb PREVALENCE 60%

throw with force

To hurl something with violent enthusiasm, often away from oneself.
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Variations

  • yeeted
  • yeeting
  • yote (joke past tense)
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Origin

Emerged from Vine around 2014 alongside a dance move of the same name, then drifted from dance-floor exclamation to general-purpose verb for throwing something hard. Nobody agrees on the correct past tense, which is the closest thing English has to a controlled linguistic experiment.

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Examples

"She yeeted the remote across the room when her team lost."
"Just yeet the trash bag into the dumpster, don't walk it over."
"He yeeted his phone into the pool trying to get a good photo."
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Cultural context

Crossed from Black Vine culture into mainstream and then dictionary-official territory by 2018, at which point it started dying the slow death of overexposure. Safe to use for comic emphasis about throwing something; risky if you're over 30 and saying it with a straight face.

SENSE 02 verb PREVALENCE 25%

express dismissal

To discard an idea, person, or obligation with comedic finality.
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Variations

  • yeeted
  • yeet it
  • yote
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Origin

Traces back to a 2014 Vine of a teenager shouting 'yeet' while throwing a bottle; the word later drifted from literal throwing into a general-purpose verb for tossing anything out of your life, plans included. No one has ever fully explained the vowel sound, and everyone has stopped asking.

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Examples

"Just yeet that email into the trash, we're not doing that project."
"She yeeted her ex from the group chat without so much as a warning."
"I yeeted the idea before the meeting even started because nobody needed to hear it."
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Cultural context

Works best in casual texts or group chats when you want to signal you've disposed of something — a plan, a person, a bad take — without further discussion; deploy in professional settings only if your workplace has already surrendered to bit-based communication.

SENSE 03 verb PREVALENCE 15%

to launch or remove oneself from a situation dramatically, often reflexively

Throwing yourself out of a situation the way you'd throw a shoe at a wall.
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Variations

  • yeet outta here
  • yeeted myself
  • yeet away
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Origin

Grew out of the mid-2010s Vine-era exclamation 'yeet' (a hype word accompanying forceful throwing), which by the later 2010s had generalized into a transitive verb for launching anything, including your own body out of an awkward meeting or bad date.

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Examples

"The second the meeting mentioned 'mandatory fun,' I yeeted myself out the side door."
"She yeeted herself off the couch the moment she heard the pizza guy's car."
"I'm gonna yeet myself into the pool before anyone asks me to give a toast."
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Cultural context

Common in casual texting and Zoomer/younger-Millennial speech as a jokey way to describe fleeing a social situation with exaggerated urgency; safe to use with friends, slightly try-hard in a work Slack.

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