Entry · catalog no. 9905
yeet
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verb · nationwide · 2026
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1.
To throw something hard and without care. Also an interjection shouted at the moment of the throw, or of any sudden triumph.
“He yeeted the ball clean over the fence.”
Origin & Attribution
Black American speech, documented as an exclamation of excitement well before 2014, then attached to a dance. In March 2014 a Vine of a boy nicknamed Lil Meatball doing the yeet at a school track spread to over 100,000 likes, and the word left the neighborhood. The American Dialect Society named it 2018 slang word of the year; most coverage credited "the internet" rather than the Black teenagers who made it.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide / diaspora
nationwide · 2026
Spoken by
nationwide
$YEETThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
12/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2026
in the culture
Recorded here
2026
point of first record
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Citations & Sources
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Jasmine Nicole — Vine video of the "yeet" dance — social video · 2014
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+ Cite a sourceAmerican Dialect Society — Slang/Informal Word of the Year — award citation · 2018
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