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yanker

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Noun1.yanker - someone who gives a strong sudden pull
jerker
puller - someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself
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The last great flowering may have been the US Comedy Central show Crank Yankers, which ran for five years until cancelled in 2007, during which it built up a revolving cast of characters - including a 62-year-old psychotic Vietnam vet with a 600lb wife and conjoined twin daughters, a scatalogically inclined mother of innumerable semi-feral children and a British earl of plentiful, unspecified perversion - who embroil unwary people increasingly surreal conversations.
'Is Mr Freely there? First initials IP?' by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
If Comedy Central ever revives “Crank Yankers,” we may have found a new cast member.
The Morning Read by Steve Kornacki / The New York Observer
Hector Garcia's crank yankers involve buried nosegrinds, not foul-mouthed puppets.
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