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yap
(redirected from yapper)

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yap about someone or something
to talk casually about someone or something; to gossip or complain about someone or something. Stop yapping about Molly. Claire is always yapping about her salary.

yap at someone 

1. . Lit. [for a small dog] to bark at someone or something. The dog yapped at the cat in great frustration. I am tired of that dog yapping at me all the time!
2. Fig. [for someone] to scold or bark at someone shrilly. Don't yap at me. I didn't do it. Bob yapped at Bill for something he didn't do.


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There was one little yapper on the way up here, but they were all very good," she said.
So the snappers and yappers nipped at the big fella's heels, making his life a living hell.
The best of these yappers will be off on The Quest this winter - a 1,000-mile race from Fairbanks, Alaska, across the frozen wastes down to Whitehorse.
 
 
 
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