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countable and uncountable, plural yaps
(countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar. examples
(uncountable, slang) Casual talk; chatter. quotations
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.
1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59
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.”
1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 190
(countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.
(countable, Tyneside) A badly behaved child; a brat. examples
third-person singular simple present yaps, present participle yapping, simple past and past participle yapped
(intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark. examples
(intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
(transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone). quotations
Ante up! Yap that fool!
2000, M.O.P., Ante Up