yapped; yapping
yapper
noun
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Examples of yap in a Sentence
Verb
The dog was yapping all night.
Kids were yapping in the back of the room.
She seems to spend all her time yapping on the phone.
Noun
I heard yaps coming from the yard.
a dope with a talent for opening his yap at exactly the wrong moment
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2024
From chilling fights about yapping too much to roundabout conversations about getting the ick from watching your partner straddle patio furniture, there’s plenty here.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 10 Oct. 2024
Your new best friend will thank you—in licks, tail wags, and happy yaps, of course.
—Clarissa Schmidt, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2024
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Verb
Things were going very smoothly with the couple taking things slow in Cabo, but Stephen was yapping her ear off.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2024
From chilling fights about yapping too much to roundabout conversations about getting the ick from watching your partner straddle patio furniture, there’s plenty here.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Noun
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
Your new best friend will thank you—in licks, tail wags, and happy yaps, of course.
—Clarissa Schmidt, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2024
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“Yap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yap. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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