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(verb) Short for yupping.

Yupping is when you are somewhere doing something with group of people because you want to be with them, and not because you want to be there or do what they are doing.
*Harrison, Tucker, and the squad are out at a bar to celebrate Harrison turning 21*
Harrison: Can I get tall Miller Lite for my friends and I?

Bartender: Sure, coming right up.

*Tucker is coming off of a bad hangover, and if he drinks at all he's gonna throw up*
Tucker: I'll just have water.

Harrison: Tucker, your not getting anything? It's my 21st birthday!

Tucker: Nah man I can't drink right now, I'm just yuppin.
Yuppin by Jasnah November 4, 2019
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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
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Stands for Young Urban Professional. Yuppies are usually the children of doctors and lawyers, hold Master's degrees from Ivy League universities, and are very concerned with their appearance. Many were in fraternities and many live in expensive houses or apartments.

Yuppies can typically be seen in large metropolitan areas such as Portland or New York. Their wardrobe consists of grey, black or khakhi slacks, usually with grey, striped or pastel colored suit jackets and shirts. Yuppies typically take the idea of competing for social status extremely seriously. Their culture revolves around Starbucks coffee, expensive foreign restaurants and romantic comedies starring Julia Roberts or Tom Hanks. Yuppies generally only hold political views that are considered trendy.
Many yuppies go into fields such as politics, big business, public administration, medicine and law. You may have worked for one.
The most popular movie about yuppie culture is American Psycho.

Yuppies are what happens to hipsters and preps when they grow up.
Yuppie by douche bag from hell April 11, 2011

Elitist Yuppie Scum 

A yuppie that has taken his/her obsession with wealth and status to a higher level in which even associating with their definition of poor people is considered dirty and degrading.
Guy A: Man, it's great seeing you guys, been years since college! We should get a hold of Geoff, that dude was the shit!

Guy B: That's not going to work.

Guy C: Yeah, Geoff is elitist yuppie scum now, he won't associate with us "poor folk."

Guy A: Poor? I make like $75,000 a year.

Guy B: Exactly.
Elitist Yuppie Scum by Red001 November 1, 2011

yuppie crack 

High quality, expensive coffee (i.e. Starbucks, Peets, etc.)
Give her the news after she has some yuppie crack.
yuppie crack by Dr. J. August 3, 2005

yuppie-nuremberg defense

the "yuppie nuremberg" defense is when someone does something they know is wrong but tries justify it by simply saying they're doing it for the money. typically a lame excuse. . from the film, "thank you for smoking."
1; You know what your doing is wrong.
2; Everybody has a mortgage to pay.
1; Ah, the yuppie-nuremberg defense.

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.