flap

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Noun

1. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
   • a flap of a garment
   • The envelope flap seemed curiously wrinkled.
2. A hinged leaf.
   • the flaps of a table
   • the flap of a shutter
3. A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
4. A side fin of a ray.
5. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
   • the flap of a sail
   • the flap of a wing
6. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
   • The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.
7. A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
8. A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
9. The labia, the vulva.
10. A blow or slap (especially to the face).
11. A young prostitute.
12. A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.

Verb

1. To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
   • The crow slowly flapped its wings.
   • Startled, the wood pigeon flew off, its wings flapping noisily.
2. To move loosely back and forth.
   • The flag flapped in the breeze.
3. For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.
4. To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
5. To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
6. To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
7. To talk, especially in a manner seen as excessive, nagging or annoying.
   • She stay flappin' at me.

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