Sekirov Dictionary

flap

/flæp/

noun12

  1. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
  2. A hinged leaf.
  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. A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
  6. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
  7. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
  8. [in the plural] (slang, vulgar) The labia, the vulva.
  9. A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
  10. A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.
  11. (no longer used) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
  12. (no longer used) A young prostitute.

verb7

  1. To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
  2. To move loosely back and forth.
  3. To talk, especially in a manner seen as excessive, nagging or annoying.
  4. For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.
  5. To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
  6. To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
  7. To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
forms

flapped · flapt · flapping · flappeth · flaps · flappest

Phrases with flap

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