yakkety-yak

yakkety-yak
vb, n
(to indulge in) incessant talk, idle chatter. An elaborated form of yak heard espe-cially in the USA and enshrined in the pop song of the same name (written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and a world-wide hit for the Coasters in the late 1950s). The term often denotes gossip as well as chatter or talk.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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