“The bright red suit had a flap of fabric from wrist to ankle that reminded Emily of a bat's wing.”
“The Butterfly Effect derives its name from the chaos theory which suggests that the simple flap of a butterfly's wings has the potential to set off a tornado thousands of miles away.”
“She doesn't look to be in a flap about it, but then Kate never flaps, does she?”
“Whether the goody-goody Gibson girl or the dancing flapper, the single woman finally had purchasing power.”
“As the actress points out, a baby bump could hardly be hidden behind a string of flapper beads.”
“I don't want Pat to be a genius, I want her to be a flapper, because flappers are brave and gay and beautiful.”
flapping
An instance where one flaps.
(phonology) A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap /ɾ/ before an unstressedsyllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.
(aviation, aeronautics, aircraft) An aircraft control surface at the trailing edge of a wing that acts as an aileron (controlling movement around the longitudinal axis) and a flap (changing the chord line of the wing, thus affecting the angle of attack).
“The fuselage opening is placed underneath to make it possible that the flaperon connection runs straight and without complications.”
“Mr Truss told a press conference that a number stamped on the flaperon could be used to quickly identify whether it is from the missing plane.”
“A flaperon appeared on Reunion last week, and was sent to France to be assessed by experts, and has now been verified as genuine.”
flapper
(colloquial, now chiefly historical) A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum; now particularly associated with the 1920s. [from 19th c.]
