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Used in the Midlands. The act of bellowing at someone "down the street", especially from a window. Also used for communication within households that avoid personal contact. Often volume obscures pronunciation.
"Stop your yawping, mam"
yawping by Porkling July 2, 2004
Urban Dictionary Merch
Emitting a loud barbaric cry or sound.
Your yawping could be heard over two miles away.
yawping by Flying Monkeys April 23, 2008
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
yawning

a stretchy breathe.
f: are you tired?
s: NO IM JUST YAWNING BECAUSE MY MOUTH WANTS TO DO A STRETCHY BREATHE
yawning by sarahue November 10, 2019

Cell Yawning 

The unexplained urge one gets to use or play with their cell phone when watching another person utilizing theirs.
While waiting for our lunch order, Sarah took out her phone to check her texts. Cell yawning occurred and soon we all had to follow suit.
Cell Yawning by ALWAYS4UDI January 3, 2009
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Concrete cowboy 

A guy who thinks he's a country kinda guy, but in reality lives a comfortable city / suburban life.
Eugene: Look at that dude in the cowboy hat!
Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.
Word of the Day on September 20, 2026
any hard liquor that is cheap & potent.. eg. relska, popov, potters, evan williams, kamchatka, fireball, rumpleminze, southern comfort, everclear
hey let's get a drink of that?

go ahead
*takes drink* ugh wtf is that?

everclear & bepsi
fucking hobo loko eeessshh
hobo loko by d i z k o 2 0 8 September 14, 2026
Word of the Day on September 19, 2026

God Shot 

A chance happening with profound meaning, an unexpected blessing, a "sign".
Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."
God Shot by Imogen1564 February 25, 2011
Word of the Day on September 18, 2026

city chicken 

A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.

I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.
Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?
city chicken by TRF August 31, 2006
Word of the Day on September 17, 2026

Is that cake?

Another way to say is this fake? Like the show real or cake
Slayyyter just announced another album last night”
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real”
Is that cake? by Sexyyred September 15, 2026
Word of the Day on September 16, 2026
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