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Definition flap

Etymology 1

From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Middle Dutch flabbe ("a blow; slap on the face; fly-flap; flap"; > Modern Dutch flap (“flap”)), Middle Low German flabbe, vlabbe, flebbe, from the verb (see below). Related also to English flab and flabby.

Noun

flap (plural flaps)

1. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
2. (obsolete) A young prostitute.
3. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
4. A hinged leaf.
5. A side fin of a ray.
6. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
7. A controvery, scandal, stir, or upset.
8. (slang, vulgar) Chiefly in the plural: the female genitals.
9. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
10. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [[?]] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
11. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
12. (veterinary medicine) A disease in the lips of horses.

Etymology 2

From Middle English flappen (“to flap; clap; slap; strike”). Compare Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German Low German flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”), Dutch flabberen (“to flit; flap”).

Verb

1. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
2. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

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