1 in sports, especially golf, a condition when a player is not able to hit, throw, or kick the ball well, usually because of nervousness: --
"People have the yips about a conservative owning a newspaper in a liberal town," she said.
He gave up competitive golf after developing a serious case of the yips on his putting.
2 If an animal such as a dog yips, it makes a short, sharp cry: --
Although the exact cause of the yips has yet to be determined, one possibility is that the condition may result from biochemical changes in the brain that accompany aging.
Prairie dogs have one of the most sophisticated languages in the animal worlda system of high-pitched yips and barksand can run up to 35 miles per hour (55 km/h).
Focal dystonia is mentioned as another possibility for the real cause of yips.
Athletes affected by the yips demonstrate a sudden, unexplained loss of previous skills.
Such motions, especially nervous uncontrollable motions, are called yips, and having a chronic case of the yips can ruin a golfer's short game.
If the tongue closes most of the way, but doesn't pass the magic 1.5mm boundary, the result is a glide (as in yip).
When they had forged nine points ahead of Liverpool after 29 games, it looked all over. But then Leeds started to get the yips and Liverpool steadily closed the gap.
The conscious mind is often a drag on many activities. Too much thinking can give a golfer the yips.
