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Examples
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Yips is definitely not worth the trip out of your way for … but if you work near there (like Jim and I), sometimes, it’s hard to resist!
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However, it was the final game of that series that most remember as the "Yips" game.
NJ.com: Always Amazin' Michael Alpaugh 2010
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"The Yips were a source of total frustration; I could never entice them to work.
Araminta Station Vance, Jack, 1916- 1988
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Yips of excitement erupted from the crowd and several lemkins tossed their spears over their heads.
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Was walking by Yips (on 51st 52nd btw. 5+6th) the other day, and noticed this new sign in the window.
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Yips and barks rose to a song and a herd of brown and white huddled against our thighs.
Little Sister Thomas Pluck 2011
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“I don't have to take that from you, Mr. Yips,” Roethke said out of the side of his mouth.
At the Pine-Woods Golf & Poetry Club Con Chapman 2011
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The world Cadwal is an immense nature preserve whose sparse population lives in a rigid caste structure, with full Agency members on top, followed by semi-official collaterals, and finally semi-human Yips on the bottom.
Jack Vance adamosf 2010
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The world Cadwal is an immense nature preserve whose sparse population lives in a rigid caste structure, with full Agency members on top, followed by semi-official collaterals, and finally semi-human Yips on the bottom.
Archive 2010-01-01 adamosf 2010
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When I was little, I was deathly afraid of the Yip-Yips on Sesame Street.
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