flap

Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.

• a flap of a garment
• The envelope flap seemed curiously wrinkled.

A hinged leaf.

• the flaps of a table
• the flap of a shutter

A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.

A side fin of a ray.

The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.

• the flap of a sail
• the flap of a wing

A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.

• The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.

A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.

A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.

The labia, the vulva.in-pluralslangvulgar

A blow or slap (especially to the face).obsolete

• 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
• a1500 The Prose Merlinː The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear.

To move (something broad and loose) up and down.transitive

• The crow slowly flapped its wings.
• Startled, the wood pigeon flew off, its wings flapping noisily.

To move loosely back and forth.intransitive

• The flag flapped in the breeze.

For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.intransitive

• Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber flapped at his first Delap throw but was given a soft free-kick by referee Antony Gautier.

To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.transitive

To be pronounced with a flap consonant.intransitive

To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.intransitive

To talk, especially in a manner seen as excessive, nagging or annoying.

• She stay flappin' at me.