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ya-ta-ta

[ yah-tuh-tuh, yat-uh-tuh ]

noun

Slang.
  1. empty conversation.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ya-ta-ta1

An Americanism dating back to 1945–50; imitative
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Example Sentences

In his opening scenes, showing civic stuffed shirts unveiling a monument, the speeches come through as squeaky noises that are at once a spoof of the speakers' pomposity and a nose-thumbing Chaplin commentary on the ya-ta-ta of the early talkies.

It had a big TV set going ya-ta-ta ya-ta-ta in three glorious colors, and a jukebox that tried to drown out the TV with that lousy music they play.

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