flap

About 5.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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

2. noun A hinged leaf.

   the flaps of a table

3. noun A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
4. noun A side fin of a ray.
5. noun The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.

   the flap of a sail

6. noun A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.

   The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.

7. noun A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
8. noun A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.

Similar words

fluttering flutter flopping wave undulate beat dither pother tizzy fuss

Often followed by

is of and in to for was with from

Word family

flapped flapping flaps tap