1. Verb
Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
2. Verb
A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
3. Verb
The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
4. Verb
A disease in the lips of horses.
5. Noun
To beat with a flap; to strike.
6. Noun
To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
7. Verb
To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
8. Verb
To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
9. Noun
the motion made by flapping up and down
Vocabulary classified under Physics
10. Noun
an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft"
Vocabulary classified under Psychology
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