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noun

Definition of yapnext
slang
as in mouth
the opening through which food passes into the body of an animal a dope with a talent for opening his yap at exactly the wrong moment

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verb

as in to yammer

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Recent Examples of yap
Noun
But Wednesday down in Dove Valley felt like a level of intensity these Broncos hadn’t reached all offseason, emotions and bellows and yaps hinging on nearly every rep during team work. — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 31 July 2025 TikTok and Instagram Reels are rife with clips of two women sitting in a pink or beige studio and, in TikTok terms, having a yap about seemingly inconsequential matters. — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 10 Apr. 2025 There was a riot of noise, the yaps and yelps of a hound pack fighting an animal on the ground. — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025 Abigail is also an expert in Gilmore Girls lore and yaps about romance novels on a podcast in her spare time. — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 10 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for yap
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yap
  1. mouth
  2. yammer
  3. yak
  4. discuss
  5. expatiate
  6. gossip
Noun
  • Robbie Williams was not using cocaine during the World Cup final on Sunday, after a video went viral of a white object falling from his mouth onto a microphone during an interview.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 21 July 2026
  • Essentially a rock has met a hard place – at the mouth of the Persian Gulf.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Definition of mouth
Verb
  • Lots of fussy bow-tie types yammering about Renoir.
    — Peter Bogdanovich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
  • There’s also an inanimate object that directly affects Paul’s future so profoundly that this small prop might as well be a lurking, yammering figure in the diner.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2026
Definition of yammer
Verb
  • From mopane worms in Zimbabwe to yak butter tea in Tibet, people are willing to try almost anything these days.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • But yakking about redrawing California’s congressional maps is easy.
    — George Skelton, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
Definition of yak
Verb
  • Senators Lummis and Bernie Moreno (OH) met with White House officials to discuss the bill and explore potential ethics language.
    — Cleve Mesidor, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • The Blazers’ board of directors met on Monday, in part to discuss the lease-term list issued by the city on Friday.
    — Jason Quick, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of discuss
Verb
  • There was no debate on education, for instance, the subject on which Cash had been most keen to expatiate; indeed, there were no debates at all.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • Ostensibly, further studies are encouraged to expatiate this understanding.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2024
Definition of expatiate
Verb
  • Mary McCarthy gossips more frankly about people Robert Lowell mentions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
  • If her fellow cast members were debriefed about her dismissal or gossiped amongst themselves, it was not shown onscreen.
    — KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Definition of gossip

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