Definitions for yaps

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yaps yap

Spelling: [yap]

IPA: /yæp/

Yaps is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in yaps (apsy).

Definitions for yaps

noun

1. a sharp, shrill, or snappish bark; yelp.
2. Slang. shrill, noisy, or foolish talk. the mouth:
3. Slang. an uncouth or stupid person; bumpkin; fool.
4. one of the Caroline Islands, in the W Pacific: part of the Federated States of Micronesia. 83 sq. mi. (215 sq. km).

verb (used with object)

1. to utter by yapping.

verb (used without object)

1. to bark sharply, shrilly, or snappishly; yelp.
2. Slang. to talk shrilly, noisily, or foolishly.

Origin of yaps

1595-1605; 1900-05 for def 5b; imitative

Examples for yaps

In the second place there is no mound of sand in front of yap yap's doorway.

The coyotes broke out again; yap, yap, yap—then the high whine.

The monosyllable escaped her lips like the yap of a dog at bay.

It was too late to see them, and Con, who limped at my heels, had not a yap left in him.

They probably think they can get quail on toast now if they yap for it.

Wouldn't even pay attention to the packs of feral Iraqi hounds that yap and howl all through the night when people walk by.

That yap up there at the top of the hill could have done this for you long ago.

The glass and porcelain money on yap must have come from China or Japan.

He is called the barking deer, because he can bark or yap almost like a dog.

He is to be feared most of all because he can follow yap yap down into his hole.