Meaning of yard ape | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An unruly child.
   derogatory, slang
2. A black person.
   derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur

Examples

“"Yard apes!" yelled Ramona, her name for the sort of boys who always got the best balls, who were always first on the playground, and who chased their soccer balls through other people's hopscotch games.”

““Get outta my clean kitchen with those dirty feet, you yard apes!” Yard apes were unruly children.”

“I went to Donna's little girl's birthday party at Chuck E Cheese and had to listen to those screaming yard apes for an hour.”

“Crude American racists often refer to blacks as "niggers," "coons," "porch monkeys," "jungle bunnies," and "yard apes."”

“Can't you yard apes think of anything original to cry about?”

“It was a great Academy Award show this year, where the totally niggerfree movie Titanic won no less than 11 Academy Awards. It's a really great movie running 3h14min and not a single solitary yard ape in sight.”

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