Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Prolonged, sometimes senseless talk.
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- noun slang
prolonged chatter ; uninterrupted, idle talk; gossip - verb intransitive, slang To talk pointlessly and uninterruptedly.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Whew, that was a lot of yackety-yak on my part ... but then, I have much to talk about after a long break.
Archive 2007-01-01 Nupur 2007
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They lapsed into a long pondering silence at the board, then started talking at once, yackety-yak together.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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They lapsed into a long pondering silence at the board, then started talking at once, yackety-yak together.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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They lapsed into a long pondering silence at the board, then started talking at once, yackety-yak together.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Left were the portly, graying bartender, a youngish, blonde waitress of hardbitten looks adding up her tabs, and a yackety-yak goodfella talking a blue streak at the end of the bar.
A Brush With Bamonte's Brooks of Sheffield 2006
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Left were the portly, graying bartender, a youngish, blonde waitress of hardbitten looks adding up her tabs, and a yackety-yak goodfella talking a blue streak at the end of the bar.
Archive 2006-11-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2006
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None of your damned time-wasting yackety-yak. helly as joru: I have some extremely valuable merchandise on offer, of a most unusual nature.
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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In the meantime, Leiweke has to get beyond all the yackety-yak to date.
latimes.com - News 2010
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In the meantime, Leiweke has to get beyond all the yackety-yak to date.
latimes.com - News 2010
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In the meantime, Leiweke has to get beyond all the yackety-yak to date.
latimes.com - News 2010
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