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1) To tell a story, which more or less at any given moment contains a dubious amount of exaggeration. (To spin a yarn)

2) To have conversation with someone, most likely pertaining to trivial matters.
1) To spin a yarn - "One time I saw this dog driving a car, and it was wearing a cape!"

2)"I'll see you later on, we'll catch up and have a bit of a yarn"
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When someone goes to the gym and spends 90% of the time on their phones scrolling through social media
Looks like its thumb day again for Jimmy with his usual routing... 3 sets of 5 snapchat selfies and 10 sets of scrolling through facebook until exhaustion
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Fibre. Natural or synthetic, for example wool, nylon. Often found as one continuous thread bound into a ball, used for knitting.
"the damn kittens got my ball of yarn! how am i going to knit my leg warmers now!"
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(Verb):
Generally insignificant and meaningless conversations or questions that are intentionally meant to provoke disgruntled responses; similar to a animal attacking a ball of yarn
"Why are you throwing yarn at me?"
"I'm not taking that yarn."
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Instead Of Yeah
or
Instead of Awesome
nartwell: "Did you get that Joke?"
spunkmeyer: "Yarn."
or
Bort: "Let's go smoke some dope"
goose: "Yarny"
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Yarn is a slang term for fight used mainly in Australia
A guy insults you and you would say "you want to yarn mate"
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