What is "yappers"

Usage examples of "yappers".

Surrounded by paid yappers like victims for the ancient Romans celebrations of purifications, our provincials applaud, cheer and get excited, the same as on the night before at the signal given by the claqueurs and the regulars.

As you see, he has little in common with the yellow yappers that run the plains, though they are kin.

The rest of the onlookers who had been watching the starship from a distance, mostly children and the domestic yappers, were gone as well.