yaper - Either a young affluent parent or a young aspiring professional. Etymology: A variation on the theme of yuppie, using the initial letters of Young Affluent Parent or Young Aspiring Professional for the'root'. History and Usage: Like guppie, this is really a stunt word, jumping on the bandwagon of yuppie but in a rather ad hoc fashion. The word yappie has been used by journalists in a variety of contexts and meanings--including 'a talkative yuppie', 'a yuppie dog-owner', 'young Asian-American professional', and 'young athletic participant'--but it is the two meanings given in the definition above that at present hold the majority. The word seems unlikely to survive in the language unless it becomes established in one of these two meanings. The yappies are the creation of the Henley Centre, the research organisation which plots changes in social and spending trends. They are the young professional people who were possibly yuppies in the 1980s...When children come on the scene yappies spend most of their time in the more prosaic roles of 'parent' and 'provider'. Financial Times 19 Apr. 1990, section 1, p. 9

yaper - v. & n.
--v.

intr. (yapped, yapping)
1 bark shrilly or fussily.
2 colloq. talk noisily, foolishly, or complainingly.

--n.

a sound of yapping.

yapper n. [imit.]

yaper - n.
= POSSUM 2. [Oyapok, Oiapoque, N. Brazilian river]

yaper - n.
Brit. a form of bookbinding with a limp leather cover projecting to fold over the edges of the leaves. [name of a London bookseller c.1860, for whom it was first made]

yaper - {n.}, {slang} Much talk about little things; talking all the time about unimportant things. * /Tom sat behind two girls on the bus and he got tired of their silly yak-yak./

yaper - noun
Also written ya (People and Society) A Sloane Ranger or yuppie; someone who says 'yah' instead of 'yes'. Etymology: Formed by converting their characteristic pronunciation of yah ('yes') into a noun. This mannerism had apparently been noted as long ago as 1887 in a student newspaper. History and Usage: Despite the fact that yah has evidently been a well-known affected pronunciation of yes for some time, the word was not used to characterize a social type until the early eighties. By the early nineties most people probably associated loud and repetitive use of yah more with the brash executive or yuppie type than with the upper classes. Pursuing my researches into the social make-up of the university [of St Andrews] with daughter and friends, I am reminded that the rich set are known as the Ya's, derived from their loud affirmations. Sunday Telegraph 17 July 1983, p. 9