flapper

[ flap-er ]

/ ˈflæp ər /

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noun

something broad and flat used for striking or for making a noise by striking.

a broad, flat, hinged or hanging piece; flap.

a young woman, especially one who, during the 1920s, behaved and dressed in a boldly unconventional manner.

a young bird just learning to fly.

Slang. the hand.

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Origin of flapper

First recorded in 1560–70; flap + -er¹

OTHER WORDS FROM flapper

flap·per·dom, nounflap·per·ish, adjectiveflap·per·ism, noun

Words nearby flapper

flaperon, flapjack, flapless amputation, flap operation, flappable, flapper, flappers, flapping tremor, flappy, flaps, flap valve

How to use flapper in a sentence

Replacing a standard flapper, generally for less than $10, is relatively easy, he says.
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Our stereotype of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ is cocaine, nightclubs, and flapper girls.
Sarah Waters: Queen of the Tortured Lesbian Romance|Tim Teeman|September 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Standing on the pier was a crowd of tearful fans, dressed in their best flapper frocks.
Tallulah Bankhead: Gay, Drunk and Liberated in an Era of Excess Art|Judith Mackrell|January 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This brings us to the flapper, the suffragette, and, finally, that über-American icon: the screen siren.
The Forgotten American Woman|Kate Betts|May 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST

Fleur was not a flapper, not one of those slangy, ill-bred young females.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume III.|John Galsworthy
The sick man moved a hand, weakly, as though it were the yellow flapper of some wounded amphibian.
The Shadow|Arthur Stringer
The motor chugged slowly up Broadway, nosing for a path about a slowly driven truck; the flapper looked back.
Bunker Bean|Harry Leon Wilson
Now in his hot rage he included the flapper in the glare he put upon her unconscious father.
Bunker Bean|Harry Leon Wilson
But during pauses in the afternoon's work the island vision became blurred by the singular energies of the flapper.
Bunker Bean|Harry Leon Wilson

British Dictionary definitions for flapper

flapper

/ (ˈflæpə) /

noun

a person or thing that flaps

(in the 1920s) a young woman, esp one flaunting her unconventional dress and behaviour

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