YAKETY-YAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yakety-yak mean? 

• YAKETY-YAK (noun)
  The noun YAKETY-YAK has 1 sense:

1. noisy talk

  Familiarity information: YAKETY-YAK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YAKETY-YAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Noisy talk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cackle; chatter; yack; yak; yakety-yak

Hypernyms ("yakety-yak" is a kind of...):

talk; talking (an exchange of ideas via conversation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yakety-yak"):

blether; chin music; idle talk; prate; prattle (idle or foolish and irrelevant talk)