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Definition of "yaup" [yaup]

  • Obsolete spelling of yawp. (noun)
  • Obsolete spelling of yawp. (verb)

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Use "yaup" in a sentence
  • ""Hold your yaup," cried another boy, standing by; "if you don't like your bet, Hen Billings, I'll take it off your hands.""
  • "With a shrill yaup of terror Long Bill jerked a gun from its holster and fired upward."
  • "Emerson believes in him; Lowell not at all; Longfellow finds some good in his 'yaup;' but the truth is, he is in an amorphous condition.”"