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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A disease in the lips of horses.
  • A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
  • An upset, stir, scandal or controversy
  • 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''.
  • aviation A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
  • slang Vagina
  • The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, ''the flap of a sail'' or ''the flap of a wing''

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Verb:

  • intransitive to move loosely back and forth
  • transitive to move something broad and loose back and forth, as '''''flap''' its wings''

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