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

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

I think flappers and waifs could feel the impending doom.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

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

Just as fascinating is his description of the role that Jazz Age flappers played in reforming gendered dress codes that had held women in thrall to corsets and “cocoons of tulle and taffeta.”

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2021

At one point, the dancers appeared dressed as flappers, twirling wildly to jazzy music.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann