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Yankees

Yankees

247 2.6
A baseball team from New York City
  • proper noun
  • /ˈjæŋkiz/
translation icon : New York Yankees
  • Texas edged the Yankees, 5 to 4.
  • New York Yankees
  • New York Yankees

Oh, yeah, He loves the Yankees, you know, Rangers fan too.

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Examples

  • Saturday we actually went to a Yankee game, and it was such a fun day.

  • Drew, instead of wearing his temple-issue hat, pulls on a New York Yankees baseball cap!

    Fiction book (1991)

  • You think the Yankees are gonna go all the way?

    Analyze That (2002)

  • Now, this 1 game would decide who would go to the World Series against the great New York Yankees.

    Parental Guidance (2012)

  • And the New York Yankees cleared the place.

  • These were New York Yankees and Red Sox fans.

  • I grew up watching the Yankees, but my wife is truly a die hard Mets fan.

    GQ

  • What's the chance the Yankees win a three-game World Series?

  • I grew up a Rangers, Yankees, Knicks and Jets fan.

    GaryVee

  • The Yankees are famous for their iconic pinstripe uniforms and rich history.

Synonyms

the Bronx
vsYankees
  • US
1 3.9

A name used for the New York Yankees baseball team and its fans

refers specifically to the professional baseball club itself rather than the place or fans

Surface Forms

Yankees main

Morphology

Yankees = Yankee (transparent) = Yankee + s

The team name is the plural form of 'Yankee' (regular -s); the morphological relation is straightforward even though this is a proper noun.

Etymology

Yankees is the name the New York baseball team chose from that old nickname for New Yorkers and northerners, so the team name shows local and national pride in that American identity.