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flap

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Noun

  1. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
  2. A hinged leaf.
  3. A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
  4. A side fin of a ray.
  5. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
  6. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
  7. A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
  8. A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
  9. The labia, the vulva.
  10. A blow or slap (especially to the face).
  11. A young prostitute.
  12. A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.

Verb

  1. To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
  2. To move loosely back and forth.
  3. For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.
  4. To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
  5. To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
  6. To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

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