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What does flap mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
  2. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
  3. A hinged leaf.
  4. A side fin of a ray - also termed a wing.
  5. An upset, stir, scandal or controversy
  6. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
  7. A disease in the lips of horses.
  8. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
  9. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [[ɾ]] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
  10. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
  11. (plural) The female genitals.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
  2. (computing) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
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