flappers

Cultural  

1. A nickname given to young women in the 1920s who defied convention by refusing to use corsets, cutting their hair short, and wearing short skirts, as well as by behavior such as drinking and smoking in public. (See Jazz Age and Roaring Twenties.)

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Example Sentences

Jazz ruled the airwaves and flappers ruled fashion.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2024

Next steps from the robotics perspective will include working with material scientists to equip the flappers with muscle-like materials.

From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023

The evening started with cocktails and moved to a tent on the museum’s back lawn; many patrons were dressed as flappers to fit the Roaring Twenties theme.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021

Sibling chorus girls go to Paris and live like their mother and aunt who were 1920s flappers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2020

It was light and floaty, with thin shoulder straps, the type of outfit I imagined flappers with boyish figures wore for a night out at a speakeasy or a dance hall.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu