flap
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- IPA: /flæp/
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- Rhymes: -æp
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flap (plural flaps)
- Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
- A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
- An upset, stir, scandal or controversy
- The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.
- The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or the flap of a wing
- A disease in the lips of horses.
- (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
- (slang) Vagina
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- (upset): Wikisaurus:commotion
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to flap (third-person singular simple present flaps, present participle flapping, simple past and past participle flapped)
- (transitive) to move something broad and loose back and forth, as flap its wings
- (intransitive) to move loosely back and forth
- The flag flapped in the breeze.