(yap) noun
1. Slang. Talk; jabber.
2. Slang A rowdy or bumpkin.
3. A bark or yelp.
4. A worthless dog.
—v.i. yapped, yap·ping
1. Slang To prate; jabber.
2. Colloq. To bark or yelp, as a cur. [Imit. of a dog's bark]

(yäp, yap)
An island group in the western Carolines; 80 square miles: formerly Guap.