See yeet on Wiktionary
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"text": "[A] “Yeeting Zone” is going to be established to solve the problem of dangerous VK bottle yeeting. This comes after unsuspecting Notts students have fallen victim to having bottles thrown in their face...He hopes that this new arrangement will allow clubbers to yeet their VKs, whilst ensuring that other clubbers stay safe.",
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"text": "[Y]our main character can yeet his way around town instead of walking...When you’re not yeeting around town at 100km/ph^([sic]), you’ll be traversing Jail Island, beating down baddies and ploughing through the main quest line.",
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"ref": "2019 April 27, Petrana Radulovic, “What Phase 4 looks like after Avengers: Endgame”, in Polygon:",
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"ref": "2021 December 19, Sarah McManus, anonymous quotee, “Self-Harm Memes: Healthy or Harmful?”, in The Blade and Beyond, archived from the original on 2024-07-29:",
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"ref": "2022 January 29, Federica Guccini, Gerald McKinley, “\"How deep do I have to cut?\": Non-suicidal self-injury and imagined communities of practice on Tumblr”, in Social Science & Medicine, volume 296, Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, page 6:",
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"ref": "2022 April 5, Brad Jones, “Mom Blames LGBT Club for Teen's Suicide”, in Insight, volume 2, number 14, The Epoch Times, page 41:",
"text": "Many of these Reddit pages use a series of euphemisms that dehumanize the body. Lacerations are \"yeeting,\" the white flesh just beneath the skin is \"styrofoam,\" and \"beans\" are the bubbles of fat deeper underneath the skin.",
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"text": "Having extreme urges, I need to YEET please help me, I don’t know what to do",
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"text": "Too many adds^([sic]) per test. There were 4 in my test 1 banner ad. And 3 that took me out of the test. I may use again but over time this would cause me to yeet",
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