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• plural of flapper.

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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To replicate the columnar formations of birds, in which they line up one directly behind the other, the researchers created mechanized flappers that act like birds' wings.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024

Lurking behind the era’s glitzy flappers and Wall Street speculators was a collective trauma of both the war and the pandemic.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2022

I think flappers and waifs could feel the impending doom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

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

From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2019

Go play with the autos and the flappers.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole