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yack; yak
noun- voluble talk US
Echoic of idle chatter. - Having made such a rash promise, we’ll get down to some serious yak on the subject of the wet stuff you pour into your gas tank. — Oscar J. Gude, Hot Rod Comics, June 1952
- So I grabbed a dictionary and slowly learned words and tried them out in our yaks. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 257, 1967
- a joke US
- You see, boychick, I can spike any script with yaks, but the thing I can’t do is heartbreak. — Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, p. 159, 1951
- a telephone sales solicitor, either for a legitimate business or for a confidence swindle US
- — M. Allen Henderson, How Con Games Work, p. 224, 1985: “Glossary”
- — Kathleen Odean, High Steppers, Fallen Angels, and Lollipops, p. 132, 1988
- Most yaks paced to keep their energy level up when doing phone freaks. — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 64, 1997
- a watch UK, 1812
Possibly derived from Welsh gypsy yãkengeri (a clock, literally “a thing of the eyes”). Still current, in second spelling, among market traders. - — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Market Traders’ Slang, 1979
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