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yawp

[yawp, yahp] / yɔp, yɑp /
VERB
complain
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Every few minutes, it seemed, they were forming a phalanx across the stage to belt at me, channeling the angst of teenagers everywhere into a wordless yawp.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2022

Here in stone and glass and wood was an eruption of human potential – a victorious yawp in the face of benightedness.

From Fox News • Apr. 16, 2019

Today, those songs sound perplexingly catchy and maybe even influential — they seem to foreshadow the Auto-Tuned yawp of Young Thug, the incessant chatter of the Minions and plenty of digitally processed babble in between.

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2017

I watched him nimbly pop up onto his surfboard and disappear with a barbaric yawp over the crest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2016

Tiny runs up to us and puts a paw on each of our shoulders and lets forth a yawp of joy.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan




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