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yap
noun- the mouth US, 1900
- I was led back to the deputy, who asked what the trouble was and then, before I had a chance to open my yap, said, “Shut up or I’ll bust you in the nose.” — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 35, 1946
- “But I told this house that if he opened his yap I’d cut his tongue out.” — Irving Shulman, Cry Tough, pp. 30–31, 1949
- He waited until we were in the car before he opened his yap. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 169, 1951
- Their worst fears were realized the minute he opened his big yap. — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, p. 78, 1954
- All I hoped was that old Mindzenty would keep his yap shut for seven straight days. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 164, 1961
- Why don’t ya shut yer yap for a while? — Stephen J. Cannell, Big Con, p. 120, 1997
- [E]very time he opened his fat yap. — The Guardian, p. 3, 12 June 2003
- inconsequential talk US, 1907
- Don’t think, despite the annual yaps for more assistance, the Washington police force is radically undermanned. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 226, 1951
- So what’s your point with all this yap? — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, p. 236, 1953
- in circus and carnival usage, a naive, gullible local resident US, 1981
- “John (all the yaps called me ‘Yankee John’), if ah ever gist a chance, it’ll take two men to see me, one to say ‘yere he comes’ and another to say ‘dere he goes.’” — Charles Hamilton, Men of the Underworld, p. 268, 1952
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 298, 1981
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