yap
see also: Yap
Pronunciation
Yap
Proper noun
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see also: Yap
Pronunciation
- IPA: /jæp/
yap
- (countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
- (uncountable, slang) Casual talk; chatter.
- 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59:
- Had I taken his accusations seriously I might have recommended a change in my under-managership, but I never could translate our jammy products into gas or explosives or even poison. Still yap, at least as concerned Beldite's.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-51999-4, page 190:
- They couldn’t rise above their calls for peace. Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”
- 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59:
- (countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.
- Shut your yap!
- (countable, Geordie) A badly behaved child; a brat.
yap (yaps, present participle yapping; past and past participle yapped)
- (intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
- (intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
- You’re always yapping - I wish you’d shut up.
- (transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).
Yap
Proper noun
- An island in the Caroline Islands of western Micronesia.
- French: Yap
- Italian: Yap
- Portuguese: Yap
- Russian: Яп
- Spanish: Yap
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