Definition of Flap

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Definition of Flap

Flap

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.

The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.

A disease in the lips of horses.

To beat with a flap; to strike.

To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.

To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.

To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.

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Flap Quotations

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
Billy Connolly

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
William Jennings Bryan

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
Harold MacMillan

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.
Mort Walker

Flap Translations

flap in French is valvaire
flap in German is Klappe, klappen
flap in Norwegian is klaff, blafring, blafre

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