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Yapper vs Zapper - What's the difference?

yapper | zapper |

As nouns the difference between yapper and zapper

is that yapper is one's mouth, especially of a gossipy person while zapper is a remote control for a television.

yapper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang) One's mouth, especially of a gossipy person.
    • Shut your yapper or I'll shut it for you!
  • One who yaps.
  • * 2004 , Theresa Mancus, Who moved my bone?: a guide for multi-dog households (page 25)
    • If you want your pack to be a deterrent against burglars or muggers, forget about small dogs, yappers though they be. Focus on the larger breeds, particularly working stock with strong instinctual drives.

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    zapper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial) A remote control for a television.
    • The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper .
  • A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.
  • (figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
  • * 1989 , Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
    • If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick
  • * 2009 , Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love
    • You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper .