Yank, American, citizen of the USA. The word derives from Greek Πόντος (Pontus) and was a derogative nickname for the Black Sea Greeks, it lost its national content when passing into army slang and in the late 1990s was used by Russian blue helmets in former Yugoslavia when referring to American soldiers. It then was adopted with that meaning as common slang. The USA can be called accordingly Пиндостан.
Смотрю ща боевик с Сигалом… то ли у пиндосов анатомия другая, то ли как. Но мне не понять фразы: «Сейчас я вставлю винтовку тебе в задницу и вышибу твои дурацкие мозги».
I’m watching an action movie with Seagal… maybe the Yankees have a different anatomy, maybe who knows what. I just cannot make sense of the sentence: “Now I’ll put a rifle up your ass and blow your stupid mind off”.
(bash.org.ru, 05/2007)
