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

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2020

Go play with the autos and the flappers.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole