To throw with force and joy — from a Vine dance in 2014 to a verb every child used and every parent misused by 2018. The record's entry for the word that peaked when a teacher said it in assembly, which happened in most schools in 2019.
I saved a screenshot of the first Yeet post I saw. Looking at it now, the joke is entirely in the timing. The timing does not survive the screenshot.
'Yeet' on a bin in a school corridor as an instruction, in a teacher's handwriting, 2019. The record notes the bin was, by the children's account, dead to them from that moment.
Correction to the headnote: Yeet was not coined, it was noticed. Someone said it, someone else screenshotted it, and the screenshot is the coinage.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
