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noun 
  1. a yelp or bark
  2. loud or coarse talk
verb 
  1. (intransitive) to yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another racous noise
The burly bosun always made sure that every bare-bum boy kissing the gunner's daughter had ample reason to in agony at every 'claw' of the cat-o'-nine-tails
  1. (intransitive) to talk loudly and coarsely
Sound my barbaric yawps over the roofs of the world - Walt Whitman
  1. clamor, utter loud complaints
Etymology: yolpen

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