Flap

Quick meaning: Flap is a noun meaning Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.

Meaning

Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.

More Meanings

1. A hinged leaf.
2. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
3. A side fin of a ray.
4. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
5. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
6. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
7. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.

Example Sentences

the flap of a sail

the flap of a wing

a flap of a garment

the flaps of a table

Word Forms

• flaps
• flapping
• flapped

Synonyms for flap

Depending on context, synonyms include wing, ado, argy-bargy, bobbery, brouhaha, bunfight.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fluttering, flutter, flopping, wave, undulate, beat.

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