While walking down the halls of Middletown High School North one can expect to see students rushing to their classes or huddled in large groups talking to their friends, but if you really listen to their conversations or the sounds in the hallway one term you very well might hear is “yeet”.

The term “yeet”, it seems, has been added to many teenagers vocabularies after a vine made by “Lil Meatball” went viral. In a random sampling of Middletown High School North students of varied grade levels, 6 out of 7 students  had  heard of the term yeet. Out of the 6 students who had heard of yeet, 4 knew it because of vine and 2 people heard of it as a result of twitter. Although most students have heard of yeet and use it frequently many can not give a clear definition of what it means.

According to Urban Dictionary yeet is a “term used to express excitement; especially used in basketball when someone has shot a three-pointer that they are sure will go in the hoop.” When asked what yeet means to them, Senior Keshawn Williams proclaimed, “for me there are a number of meanings for yeet, the number one meaning for me is avoidance or disgust. Like get up out my face, or what did you just say?” Senior Taylor Monahan said yeet means “yes!” and junior Shannon Spangler said to her yeet is “a happy word”. Senior Katie Ryan said, “yeet is a term that the girls soccer team uses.” On the other hand, sophomore Mary Connelly, Senior Dana Siclare, and sophomore Julia Devries said “I have no idea” when asked the definition of yeet.

The definition of the term yeet is very unclear, and it seems people have appointed their own meaning to it in order to incorporate it into their own vocabulary, however, that has not stopped it from becoming used rapidly throughout the language and twitter accounts of many Middletown North high school students.