Usually means: Dramatic, exaggerated movement or departure.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word flounce:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. flounce: Merriam-Webster
  2. flounce, flounce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flounce, flounce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flounce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flounce: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flounce, flounce: Wordnik
  7. flounce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flounce: Wiktionary
  9. flounce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flounce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flounce: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flounce, flounce: Dictionary.com
  13. flounce (n.), flounce (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flounce: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flounce (physics), Flounce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flounce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flounce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flounce: Rhymezone
  19. Flounce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flounce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. flounce: FreeDictionary.org
  22. flounce: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. flounce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. flounce: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. flounce: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flounce: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flounce: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flounce: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Flounce: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To move in a bouncy, exaggerated manner.
verb:  To depart in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself.
verb:  (archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
verb:  (sewing) To decorate with a flounce.
noun:  (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.
noun:  The act of flouncing.
noun:  A row of corrugations, skin folds, or spines, on the hemipenis of a snake.

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