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noun

a large, stocky, shaggy-haired wild ox, Bos grunniens, of the Tibetan highlands, having long, curved horns: endangered.

a domesticated variety of this animal.

Origin:
1785–95; < Tibetan, spelling gyag

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verb (used without object)

to talk, especially uninterruptedly and idly; gab; chatter: They've been yakking on the phone for over an hour.

noun

incessant idle or gossipy talk.

Also, yack, yackety-yak.

Origin:
1945–50, Americanism; apparently of expressive orig.

Related forms

yak·ker, noun

noun, verb (used without object), verb (used with object), yakked, yak·king. Slang.

yuk¹.

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yak¹ (jæk)

—n
	a wild and domesticated type of cattle, Bos grunniens, of Tibet, having long horns and long shaggy hair

[C19: from Tibetan gyag]

yak² (jæk)

—n
1.	Also: yakety-yak noisy, continuous, and trivial talk or conversation

—vb , yaks, yakking, yakked
2.	(intr) to chatter or talk in this way; jabber

[C20: of imitative origin]

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Word Origin & History

yak

"wild ox of central Asia," 1795, from Tibetan g-yag "male yak."

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yak

"laugh," 1938; talk idly (v.), 1950; echoic, perhaps of Yiddish origin.

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yak definition

[jæk]
and yack

in.
to talk. : Stop yakking for a minute.
n.
a chat. : We had a nice little yack and then left for work.
n.
a joke. : Don't tell that yack again. It's not a winner.
n.
a laugh from a joke. : The audience produced a feeble yak that was mostly from embarrassment.
in.
to vomit. (Onomatopoetic.) : Hank was in the john yakking all night.
n.
cognac. (Streets.) : My man, have some yak.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll-'em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

-James Thurber

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