flap

Meaning

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. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
6. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
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. (slang) The labia, the vulva.
10. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
11. (obsolete) A young prostitute.

flutter

wave

hang down

wave about

become excited

landing flap

move to and fro

blow about

blink away

rise one end

palpebrate

skin flap

detachable cap

guard board

splash plate

splash board

strip coating

back plate

hanging piece

swing loosely

bumper plate

manger board

strippable coating

T.E. flap

trailing edge flap

stop plate

repelling board

stop

🛑

dam board

baffle plate

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/flæp/

From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Saterland Frisian Flappert (“wing, flipper”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a blow; slap on the face; fly-flap; flap”) (modern Dutch flap (“flap”)), Middle Low German flabbe, vlabbe, flebbe, from the verb (see below). Related also to English flab and flabby.