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flappers

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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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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

The joke, in each instance, begins with the words “Hully gee!” supposedly uttered by one of the flappers.

From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2019

The machine men tumbled down the stairs, and Leo forced them to jitterbug like 1920s flappers.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan