yorker

/ ˈjɔːkə /

noun

1. cricket a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or just beyond the bat

Word History and Origins

Origin of yorker¹

C19: probably named after the Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Example Sentences

As a former White House official told The New Yorker, “If you’re Panama, you think this is about you. If you’re Colombia, you think it’s about you… if you think it’s a signal, it is a signal.”

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“Every New Yorker has the right to live without fear or intimidation,” she said.

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He went on to deliver a string of major scoops: more than 40 front-page Watergate stories for the New York Times, including one revealing hush-money payments to the burglars; the exposure of the CIA’s illegal domestic spying program, Operation CHAOS, which helped trigger the landmark Church Committee investigations; and, at the New Yorker, the revelation of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.

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No-fare bus service would save the average New Yorker $2,000 a year—and cost the city under $800 million annually, Mamdani says.

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It sounds like a joke setup, but there was nothing funny about this near-terminal event for our longstanding friendship—this vignette of being a Jewish New Yorker in 2025.

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