yap
IPA: jˈæp
noun
- (countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
- (uncountable, slang) Casual talk; chatter.
- (countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.
- (countable, Tyneside) A badly behaved child; a brat.
- An island in the Caroline Islands of western Micronesia.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
- (intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
- (transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).
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Examples of "yap" in Sentences
- But Tortorella's players did more to shut Hitchcock's "yap" than anything their coach said.
- My little one does not yap, is not left outside when we are not home and our walls are high.
- A perfect yap in other words and a charter member of the New Class of full time morality policeman.
- Then she had heard the "yap" of Reddy Fox cut short in the middle and the roar of Bowser's big voice as he started to chase Reddy Fox.
- Sitting down and shutting your yap is the ONE thing that you should do, and it is clearly a very valid option since you are so well suited to it.
- America may "yap" the loudest, but their sentiments are shared by almost all of China's neighbors who have even fewer ways to handle the situation, even if they not so outspoken about it.
- It lay there moaning, and every now and then it raised its head with a 'yap' of sheer fright, dreadful to hear, and bit the air, as if its enemies were on it again; and this fellow of mine lay in the opposite corner, with his head on his paw, watching it.
- And, after watching the Today Show segment that sprang from what seemed like a thoughtful blogger "round table," it turns out that, at least in the journalistic words of new Today Show co-host Kathie Lee Gifford, we're just a bunch of moms who "yap" about diapers and preschools on the web instead of at the playground.
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