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A small town on Eastern Long Island, NY consisting of several bars filled with ZZ top look a likes, keg parties in the woods on a hill, a smaller village you're not allowed to live in unless you're German or Polish and various other small town anomalies.

Fashion is confined to cowboy or work boots, wrangler jeans and white T-shirts. Camo or cowboy hats are optional. Women wear the same.

The local transportation of choice is pick up trucks with off road tires flying confederate flags. Vehicles may also include gun racks, camouflage, mounted coolers/kegs or a deer carcass (during hunting season or not).

Local past times include bathing in Yaphank Lake (only wearing cut off blue jeans),looking for dear sheads, poaching animals, drinking at the firehouse or with in sight of it, and woodsing cars (getting drunk and driving an old car through the woods until it stops only to light it on fire).

Key places to visit:
- Upper Lake
- Lower Lake
- The Hill
- Mill House
- Black Rock
- German Deli
- German Town
- Suffolk County Police HQ
- Jail
- Parking lot across from Fire Department
I was at the gas station and saw this slut that was wearing work boots and a camouflage jump suit, she must have been from Yaphank.
Yaphank by EW0 February 27, 2011
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A Yaphet is a male human being capable of being the best man you could have around. A Yaphet is a kind, caring, hilarious, cool, chill guy. He's the type of guy you need if you need a friend. A Yaphet can also be an equalivent of Hades if prokoved or pushed around. A Yaphet is not always nice. A yaphet can turn your face inside and out if picked on or pushed around. A Yaphet is a good guy.

Also known as Ya-pet
Girl 1: Whoa, you those guys over there?
Girl 2: You mean Eric, Yaphet, Jeremy, Dennis, Anthony, Fernando, and the Bradon Nyabuti?
Girl 1: Yeah, they're so hot.
Girl 3: They pretty cool
Yaphet by St. Cats September 3, 2016
A person who is fluent in the language of yapanese, or one who talks about a lot of nothing just to speak
Pronunciation:(Yh-App-Uh-Ter-On)
Yo bro, you like chicken or ham sandwiches better?

Well, first, I've got to give a shoutout to the organic nature of both chicken and ham, but I have to be completely honest on the matter THAT IS...(insert mass yapping)

This man is a straight Yappatron 3,000 he literally did not answer my question on any level and said a bunch of shit about organic value, like this man is fucking special
Yappatron by Yappatron 3,000 October 31, 2023
A magical town filled with stoners, homosexuals, mushrooms festivals and Steve Erwins vacation home.
Crystal lives in Yachats because she's a ninja.
Yachats by jcjcjcjcjc June 12, 2008

Yaphet Kotto 

Prince Yaphet Frederick Kotto (born November 15, 1937 in New York City) is an American actor. His father was a Igbo Jew from Cameroon and Kotto is a practicing Jew by faith. His father was royalty in Cameroon making Yaphet the son of the Crown Prince of the Royal Bell family of the Doualla region of West Africa's Cameroon.

Kotto got his start in acting on Broadway, where he appeared in The Great White Hope, among other productions. His film debut was in 1963 in an uncredited role in 4 For Texas, but his first big break came in Nothing But a Man in 1964. He also starred as an auto worker alongside Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel in the commercial failure but cult favourite, Blue Collar. Kotto landed the role of the James Bond villain Mr. Big in Live and Let Die. Kotto also starred in Across 110th Street, Truck Turner, Alien.

He played Baltimore police Lieutenant Al Giardello in the television series Homicide: Life on the Street.
Have you seen Truck Turner? Jesus man, Yaphet Kotto was insane in that jawn! Now I get why those stupid emo kids say "Yaphet Kotto fucking crazy!"
Yaphet Kotto by Shawn Jackson May 28, 2006

Yaphet Kotto 

Adverbial modifier, used especially before the phrase fucking crazy to raise it to the highest level of superlative.
I've just come back from seeing 'Vera Drake'. It was Yaphet Kotto fucking crazy!
Yaphet Kotto by Oliver Levy April 21, 2006
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