noun
definition
The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
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Casual talk; chatter.
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The mouth, which produces speech.
example
Shut your yap!
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A badly behaved child; a brat.
verb
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Of a small dog, to bark.
definition
To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
example
You’re always yapping - I wish you’d shut up.
definition
To rob or steal from (someone).
Examples of yap in a Sentence
The trenches of Yap (4122 fathoms) and Palau (Pelew) (4450 fathoms) are not immediately connected with that of Marianne.
These were contested by Germany, whose flag was hoisted on Yap, and the matter was referred to the arbitration of Pope Leo XIII.
Diogenes Laertius says, "If the gods use dialectic, they can use none other than that of Chrysippus"; A yap v Xpuvciriros, oinc av i v Ewa, ("Without Chrysippus, there had been no Porch").
The islands were bought by Germany from Spain in 1899, and are administered together with the western Carolines, Yap being the administrative centre.
Frazer both explain Pasiphae's monstrous union as a sacred ceremony (iepos yap,os), at which the queen of Cnossus was wedded to a bull-formed god, just as the wife of the iip X wv lwnXein in Athens was wedded to Dionysus.
The Germans divide the whole archipelago into two administrative districts, eastern and western, having the seats of government at Ponape and Yap respectively.
The foreign policy of the administration at first seemed likely to emphasize independence of action, in contradistinction to that of President Wilson; the threatened war between Panama and Costa Rica was prevented by a sharp note from Secretary Hughes; the claims of the Japanese to a mandate over Yap were stoutly denied; the administration refused to follow Great Britain in resuming trade relations with Soviet Russia.
Change, growth and decay he explained on the principle of mechanical compensation (S&Sovai yap aura rir6Y Kai S&KT, rTjc aSucias).
The inhabitants of Yap are noted for possessing the most extraordinary currency, if it can he so called, in the whole world.