flap

Plural: flaps

Noun

• any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely
  • "he wrote on the flap of the envelope"
• an excited state of agitation
  • "there was a terrible flap about the theft"
• the motion made by flapping up and down
• a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
• a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag
• Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
• A hinged leaf.
• A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
• A side fin of a ray.
• The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
• A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
• A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
• A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
• The labia, the vulva.
• A blow or slap (especially to the face).
• A young prostitute.
• A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.

Verb

Verb Forms: flapped, flapping, flaps

• To wave or swing loosely, typically up and down.
• move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
• move noisily
  • "flags flapped in the strong wind"
• move with a thrashing motion
  • "The bird flapped its wings"
• move with a flapping motion
  • "The bird's wings were flapping"
• make a fuss; be agitated
• pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
• To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
• To move loosely back and forth.
• To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
• To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
• To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

Examples

• a flap of a garment
• Startled, the wood pigeon flew off, its wings flapping noisily.
• The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.
• The crow slowly flapped its wings.
• The envelope flap seemed curiously wrinkled.
• The flag flapped in the breeze.
• the flap of a sail
• the flap of a shutter
• the flap of a wing
• the flaps of a table
• The unused tiles seemed to FLAP mockingly in his rack, offering no good plays.

Synonyms

beat, dither, flapping, flaps, flutter, fluttering, fuss, pother, roll, tizzy, undulate, wave, ado, argy-bargy, bangarang, bobbery, brouhaha, bunfight, bust-up, bustle, chaos, clamour, clatter, commotion, disruption, disturbance, flap, foofaraw, fracas, furor, hobbleshaw, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, kerfuffle, mayhem, merry hell, outcry, palaver, pandemonium, quarrel, riot, rowdydow, ruckus, rumpus, shemozzle, shindy, splatterdash, stir, stooshie, tap, three-ring circus, to-do, tomfoolery, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, uproar, upstir, wing

Related Words

fold, lappet

Anagrams of flap