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Original entry ↗To throw (something) with great force; to hurl. · To move quickly; to dash, zoom. · To self-harm.
A type of dance involving dipping one's shoulder and swinging both hands out, while an audience repeatedly chants "YEET yah, yah, yah, yah".
Expressing excitement or approval. · A sudden expression used while throwing something, especially with force.
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.
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