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

In what ways were flappers a reaction to World War I?

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

I think flappers and waifs could feel the impending doom.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

When we went in, the room was already crowded—babies, children of all ages, and women of all kinds: nuns, spike-heeled flappers, lame grandmothers, fat mothers and thin ones, brave ones and sniffling ones.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz