Yap

/jæp/ · noun

Meaning

(countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
2. (uncountable, slang) Casual talk; chatter.
3. (countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.
4. (countable, Geordie) A badly behaved person, especially a child.
5. (dated, slang) A fool.
6. (intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
7. (intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
8. (transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).

Example Sentences

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.

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.”

Shut your yap!

You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.

Ante up! Yap that fool!

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Word Forms

• yaps
• yapping
• yapped

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