A social intervention that flags when someone has been yapping — talking excessively, pointlessly, or without reading the room — and signals it's time to stop. A yap check can come from a friend, a group chat, or one's own internal monologue: the moment you realize you've been going and the audience checked out three paragraphs ago. It's not necessarily harsh; a yap check is a form of care, redirecting the yapper back to earth before the damage is irreversible. Issue one kindly. Receive one gracefully.
she needed a yap check like twenty minutes ago she's still going about the same thing
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