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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of yap.

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Examples

  • He yapped from the bench, and later picked himself up off the ice after being face-planted into the glass.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • As the bank broke down and the light fell in upon them, they turned for a moment from their labors, and casting a foxy eye up at us, "yapped" sharply and bristled themselves.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

  • Oscar yapped and turned in a circle, which I took as an OK.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • At the time he raided the steamship companies, they had yapped at him and worried him, the whole pack of them, only to have him whirl around and whip them in the fiercest pitched battle San Francisco had ever known.

    Chapter X 2010

  • Dudley had been left behind before and had yapped about it.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • Oscar yapped and turned in a circle, which I took as an OK.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • The dogs yapped as they passed each other, strained their leashes, wagged their stubby tails, lunged, baring teeth, but if their mistresses ever allowed them close enough for a bite, they would run from each other in fright.

    Yalta Pas de Deux Andrew Stancek 2011

  • Possum, crawling upward from my feet under the covered way of my bed, yapped with terror as the seas smashed and thundered and as the avalanche of books descended upon us.

    CHAPTER XXX 2010

  • But ministers were discouraged from participating because they yapped so much the rehearsals took forever.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • The moon over Miami was crescent, a warm breeze ruffled multi-lighted coconut palm fronds, dogs with hats yapped under the tables and around splashing fountains, long-legged Latinas and buff fellas, tourists and druggies and varied genders preened in an endless paseo.

    Lea Lane: South Beach: Then and Now Lea Lane 2011

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