EGAVE

flapping

About 1.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective that flaps or flap
    flapping sails
  2. noun An instance where one, or something, flaps.
  3. noun A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap [ɾ] before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.
  4. noun The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
  5. noun The unlicensed racing of horses or greyhounds.
  6. verb present participle and gerund of flap

Similar words

fluttering flutter flopping pounding beating flappy aflap flippy-floppy fluting swooping

Often followed by

of in his their and its wings about her

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