The name given to the year or often a longer period of
time that posh kids spend traveling the world using daddies
money after leaving their expensive private school. Immortalised by the quality Unexpected Items Youtube video mocking the higher classes of
society.
"Oh no, Tarquin, I can'
t come shopping on the King's road today, yeah, cos I'm literally on Burma, yah, I'm on my Gap Yah at the moment."
"I cant believe you
said that, cos that really reminds me of this
time on my Gap Yah, yah, I was in Africa, in Tanzania."
"It's funny you should say that cos it really reminds me of this
time now, yah, cos I'm still on my Gap Yah, yah, I'm in Burma on this kind of spiritual, cultural, political exchange thing."