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UK
/flˈæp/
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[ US /ˈfɫæp/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫæp/ ]
VERB
-
move with a thrashing motion
The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky
The bird flapped its wings - make a fuss; be agitated
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move noisily
flags flapped in the strong wind -
move with a flapping motion
The bird's wings were flapping -
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
The curtains undulated
the waves rolled towards the beach - pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
NOUN
- the motion made by flapping up and down
- a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag
- a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
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an excited state of agitation
he was in a dither
there was a terrible flap about the theft -
any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely
he wrote on the flap of the envelope
How To Use flap In A Sentence
- Baby and Infant Products, Flap Hats, Swim Diapers, Swimwear Outwear, Sleeping Bags.
- The photo plates also age and sex accipiters, those hawks that flap, flap, sail, and are the mostly likely the ones that raid our feeders of hapless birds.
- Maru smiled slightly, unsnapping the flap of her bag and starting to dig through all of the random objects.
- Burke cast a cursory glance at the menu, then flapped it shut.
- She'd taken to wearing a low-slung leather skirt with a single flap at the front and a pair at the rear, her pouch obvious above it.
- The menu mentioned toasted teacakes, scones, doughnuts, Danish pastries and flapjack.
- He flapped up to his apartment in his ruined shoes, found his keys in the bottom of the buff envelope. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
- Baby and Infant Products, Flap Hats, Swim Diapers, Swimwear Outwear, Sleeping Bags.
- In the early part of the twentieth century, the B.V.D. brand of men's underwear (notable for its front buttons and back flaps) so dominated the marketplace that 'BVDs' became a general term used to refer to any brand of similar product (i.e., lightweight, one-piece long underwear for men), and eventually to all types and brands of men's underwear as well. New Urban Legends
- The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
