Definitions for flap

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IPA: /flæp/

Flap is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in flap (aflp).

Definitions for flap

noun

1. something flat and broad that is attached at one side only and hangs loosely or covers an opening:
2. either of the two segments of a book jacket folding under the book's front and back covers.
3. one leaf of a folding door, shutter, or the like.
4. a flapping motion.
5. the noise produced by something that flaps.
6. a blow given with something broad and flat.
7. Slang. a state of nervous excitement, commotion, or disorganization. an emergency situation. scandal; trouble.
8. Surgery. a portion of skin or flesh that is partially separated from the body and may subsequently be transposed by grafting.
9. Aeronautics. a movable surface used for increasing the lift or drag of an airplane.
10. Phonetics. a rapid flip of the tongue tip against the upper teeth or alveolar ridge, as in the r -sound in a common British pronunciation of very, or the t -sound in the common American pronunciation of water. a trill. a flipping out of the lower lip from a position of pressure against the upper teeth so as to produce an audible pop, as in emphatic utterances containing f -sounds or v -sounds.
11. Building Trades. Also called backflap hinge, flap hinge. a hinge having a strap or plate for screwing to the face of a door, shutter, or the like. one leaf of a hinge.

verb (used with object)

1. to move (wings, arms, etc.) up and down.
2. to cause to swing or sway loosely, especially with noise.
3. to strike with something broad and flat.
4. to toss, fold, shut, etc., smartly, roughly, or noisily.
5. Phonetics. to pronounce (a sound) with articulation resembling that of a flap:

verb (used without object)

1. to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise:
2. to move up and down, as wings; flap the wings, or make similar movements.
3. to strike a blow with something broad and flexible.
4. Slang. to become excited or confused, especially under stress:

Origin of flap

1275-1325; Middle English flappe a blow, slap, flappen to hit, slap; compare Dutch flap, flappen

Examples for flap

I put gun and maps in the right pocket; food in that flap behind you.

Oh, I wish you could have seen him flap his wings with delight.

Anthony lifted the flap, holding up the lantern, and we both looked in.

Take my former boss, Mitt Romney, and the flap over a Jeep plant in Ohio.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa.

Then he let down the flap, and examined the empty pigeon-holes and dusty panelling.

A five, a four and the main,' shouted the big man, with a voice like the flap of a sail.

Yet, after flipping through Not That Kind of Girl, I do begin to understand what “this Lena Dunham flap” is about.

My editor called and said, “Do a column on this Lena Dunham flap!”

If you flap your arms hard enough, a pair of vast feathered wings appears to grow out from your shoulders.