Definitions for flapper

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flapper flap·per

Spelling: [flap-er]

IPA: /ˈflæp ər/

Flapper is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in flapper (aeflppr).

Definitions for flapper

noun

1. something broad and flat used for striking or for making a noise by striking.
2. a broad, flat, hinged or hanging piece; flap.
3. a young woman, especially one who, during the 1920s, behaved and dressed in a boldly unconventional manner.
4. a young bird just learning to fly.
5. Slang. the hand.

Origin of flapper

First recorded in 1560-70; flap + -er¹

Examples for flapper

The wife isn't all there, she does her hair like a flapper and gushes extremely.

Our stereotype of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ is cocaine, nightclubs, and flapper girls.

This brings us to the flapper, the suffragette, and, finally, that über-American icon: the screen siren.

The flapper is released from the strangle hold that is throttling the rest of us.

In less than fifty hours that case will be as empty as a flapper's skull.

Great struggle for supremacy apparently with flapper sister.

A tempting street, a flirting street, almost a flapper street.

The flapper dashed into her letter with a sort of incoherent squeal.

She was at that time a mere kid of twelve, just beginning to be a flapper.

In English there is flapper, in French there is ingnue, and in German there is backfisch.