Flapping

Quick meaning: Flapping is an adjective meaning that flaps or flap.

Meaning

that flaps or flap.

More Meanings

1. An instance where one, or something, flaps.
2. (uncountable) The unlicensed racing of horses or greyhounds.
3. present participle and gerund of flap
4. (computing, telecommunications) The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
5. (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 unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.

Example Sentences

flapping sails

The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.

Flapping is racing which is not licensed by the Jockey Club. […] Anyone found participating in, or even attending, flapping races is liable to be warned off.

Flapping is the arse end of greyhound racing, the lowest of the low. Part sport, part fairground attraction, flapping is the bare-knuckle fighting of dog racing.

Word Forms

• flappings

Synonyms for flapping

Depending on context, synonyms include flutter, flap, fluttering, flopping.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fluttering, flutter, flopping, pounding, beating, flippy-floppy.

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