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  • noun Plural form of yawper.

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Examples

  • The barbaric yawpers of the netroots were rude and right.

    Hullabaloo 2007

  • The barbaric yawpers of the netroots were rude and right.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • He wasn't swept off his feet by anybody, orators or poets or yawpers -- nobody.

    Mitch Miller Edgar Lee Masters 1909

  • "And the barbaric yawpers still exist --- ironically they are especially active at Swampland, where the commentariat is one of the most engaged with the writers of anyplace on the internet."

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

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