The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PLUCK , but the solution may also be PULL which is one of the most recent solution (2014 in Newsday).
Yank out crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PLUCK | 33 % | 5 |
| EVULSE | 33 % | 6 |
| PULL | 33 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Yank out
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- pull out
- yanking
- take out
- yanked
- remove
- removing
- force out
- pullout
- removal
- pulling out
- rip out
- cut away
Crossword Answer definitions
PLUCK noun- An instance of plucking.
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
- Cheap wine.
- To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
- To remove feathers from a bird.
- To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
- To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- To pull or twitch sharply.
- (university slang) To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
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