Yap

/ jæp /

VERB / NOUN · TALKING, BUT EXCESSIVELY

WHAT “YAP” ACTUALLY MEANS

To talk a lot, often about unimportant things or without stopping. Someone who does this is a “yapper”, and a long story might be called “yapping”.

ZACK’S TRANSLATION

Talking for nine minutes in a voice note when the answer was “yes”.

“Sorry, I was yapping.”
Twenty minutes. About a sandwich.
“He yaps in every meeting.”
And the meeting runs over. And he has another meeting.
“Stop yapping and pick a film.”
It’s been an hour. You’re still on the menu.

HOW YAP ARE YOU? (TODAY’S AVERAGE READER, MADE UP)

90%

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