He just grabbed my phone and yeeted it into the river.

[GoodTaste]

Have you heard or are you familiar with the word "yeet"? I made Apple Siri, Google and Bing Translator listen to the sentence and they all failed to recognize it:

Siri: He just grabbed my phone and injected into the River.

Google: He just grabbed my phone and deleted it into the River.

Bing Translator: He just grabbed my phone and heated it into the River.

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yeet (slang)

to throw something with a lot of force:

He just grabbed my phone and yeeted it into the river.


Source: Cambridge Dictionary

 

[teechar]

I've never encountered it.

 

[Rover_KE]

Neither have I.

Forget it.

 

[Tdol]

It's new to me too.

 

[SoothingDave]

I've seen it on Twitter. I don't recommend using it.

 

[Skrej]

I've been hearing it on social media the last year or so. It's current slang meaning to throw or toss, similar to 'chuck'. It can also be used as a meaningless interjection to show show excitement, similar to something like 'yowza' or 'oh yeah'.

I kind of suspect it'll fade in popularity after a while. Slang fads tend to fade out after a while, some faster than others. It's uncommon for them to become long-term permanent additions.

Here's a page that takes the explanation a bit too formally. I suspect the conjugation information was written tongue-in-cheek - I've only seen the past tense as a regular verb 'yeeted', not the irregular forms offered here.