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yelper

yelper noun: one who yelps.

Noun (1)

yelper (plural yelpers)

  1. One who yelps.
    • Mr. Longstreth, who can be a bit of a yelper, sang sweetly, perhaps in search of contrast.2009 July 21, Nate Chinen, “Vocals That Deliver a Jolt, as ‘Ooh’ Morphs Into ‘Eh’”, in New York Times
  2. (UK, dialectal) The avocet.
  3. (US, dialectal) A bird, the tattler.

Noun (2) capitalized: Yelper

Yelper (plural Yelpers)

  1. (Internet) A user of Yelp, an Internet service that publishes crowdsourced reviews of local businesses.

yelper meaning in Urdu

yelper in Urdu

تیز بھونکنے والا کتا

Forms of yelper

pluralyelpers
pluralYelpers

Origin of yelper

From Middle English yelpere; equivalent to yelp + -er. The avocet is so called from its sharp, shrill cry.

Questions about yelper

What does yelper mean?
Yelper means one who yelps.
What is yelper in Urdu?
Yelper in Urdu is تیز بھونکنے والا کتا. See Yelper meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is yelper?
Yelper is a noun.
What is the plural of yelper?
The plural of yelper is yelpers.

Words near yelper in the dictionary

  1. yelms
  2. Yeloguy
  3. yelow
  4. yelp
  5. yelped
  6. yelper
  7. yelpers
  8. yelpier
  9. yelpiest
  10. yelping
  11. yelpings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yelper (page history and authors); Yelper (page history and authors); yelper (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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