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  1. Mar 20, 2024 · Are You Talking, or Are You ‘Yapping’? A new slang term with an old meaning emerges on TikTok. Share full article. 74. Getty Images. By Madison Malone Kircher. March 20, 2024. Have you ever...

    • Madison Malone Kircher
  2. Jun 11, 2024 · In 2024, you don't chitchat, gab, prattle, or blabber; you yap. Yapping refers to talking excessively or at length. Those who can't stop yapping are yappers. Those who are extremely online love...

  3. Apr 3, 2024 · On TikTok and X, users love the word "yapping" and all of its derivatives to describe the act of talking too much. Here's what the slang term means online.

  4. Feb 14, 2024 · “Yap” was originally a noun used to describe a small dog in the 1600s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Sylvia Sierra, a linguistics professor at Syracuse University, told Yahoo News...

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  5. The concept of yapping or someone yapping became a TikTok meme and TikTok slang starting in mid-2023 as a way to light-heartedly demean someone's opinions or, alternatively, highlight a creator's tendency to talk too much.

  6. Feb 4, 2024 · Yapping is not as oblique as some fashionable internet slang can be. In fact, it's faithful to the Oxford English Dictionary's definition of "to talk in a silly, noisy and usually annoying way". It's also the noise that small dogs make (there is no doubt that it is what the cloyingly cute Mulch Gang were doing on TikTok a couple of months ago).

  7. Feb 14, 2024 · “Forced to work, born to yap,” one TikToker captioned behind-the-scenes footage of two people cleaning what appears to be an industrial kitchen. Some people identify as a “yapper girl” and...