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Crave or desire, as in I have a yen for a thick juicy steak . The yen in this expression comes from the Chinese yan , meaning “a craving” (probably for opium). The term was first recorded in English in 1906.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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