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The act of speaking without discretion at length to an uninterested audience resulting in discomfort, annoyance, and/or discontent. yap derives from the annoying bark produced by small dog.
many other terms or "portmanteaus" incorporate "yapping"
Yapanese: when someone yaps so much they appear to no longer be speaking English

Yapathon: when a person yaps so extensively they could have ran 42 km or 26 miles during their tangent
Yapghanistan: to yap so much that it could be considered as an act of terrorism
Man 1: yes so my daughter just got a good VCE result i'm so proud next week the wife and I...
Man 2: okay buddy quit yapping this ain't yapghanistan here we speak English not yapanese, now beat it pal!
Yapping by Man glaser August 16, 2023

Posttraumatic Yapping Disorder 

A residual mental illness caused by chronic exposure to the high-pitched, pneumatic barking of small dogs belonging to one’s neighbors.
I am slowly but surely getting some distance from this Posttraumatic Yapping Disorder; I’ve noticed a decrease in my hypervigilance to sound since I removed myself from the noisy old neighborhood that was heavily populated by an army of tiny yappers who reacted to every single sound throughout those days and nights.

Yip yapping

A: Do you know what happens to us when we die?

B: I'm gonna go pick my shoes while you lie there yip yapping about life.
Yip yapping by Namastedoston July 21, 2016

what are you yapping about 

When someone is saying something that is either annoying, complicated, not believable or you simply don't know what else to say, you just ask them what they're yapping about.
Person K: bro i just clap some account 200dl rn stfu nahh bro
Person B: what are you yapping about
Talking forever and no one really pays attention to it.
When someone talks and talks and your like, yeah yeah, are you done yet?
Damn, that motha fucka KingWai was yapping like there is no tomorrow.
yapping by tadowta June 20, 2006

Yappington city 

a group of people that just wont shut the fuck up
person 1: *yapping
person 2: *yapping
person 3: *yapping
person 4: *yapping

Mr. Davie: Im in YAPPINGTON CITY RN CHAT
Yappington city by Shimmmmu September 15, 2023
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Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
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Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
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You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

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Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

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"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
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