yeet
v.v. to throw something with a lot of force and speed. People often say this when they are excited or when they want to get rid of something quickly.
v. to hurl or throw an object forcefully and with little regard for its landing. Slang in register; often used as an exclamation while throwing.
He decided to yeet the empty soda can into the bin.
After the old phone finally stopped working, she opened the window and decided to yeet it into the yard.
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.
From Middle English yeten, ȝeten, formed by tacking the general-purpose plural ending -ten onto the pronoun ye; the parallel form thouten was built the same way on thou.
Transitive verb; often used in the past tense 'yeeted'.