Calzaghe,"Yanks have'nt showed me any respect!"

[RP33]

So bad about him saying yank this and yank that, you all are yanks,... aren't you?

That's what I was trying to say, a yank to a British person is just somebody that is from America. It seems 'yank' means something entirely different in America!

no one uses that term in America besides referring to the New York Yankees.. the only time i hear, he's a "yankee" is in reference to a baseball player.. "the yanks lost last night".. besides that i'd probably consider it a derogatory term, sort of like if someone called me a WOP for being Italian.. but in all fairness, it's easy to call someone from england a brit, just one syllable, but if you had to say "american" everytime that would get annoying.. yank works for me..