Usually means: Hinged or flexible part moving.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. flap: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flap: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flap, flap: Wordnik
  7. flap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flap: Wiktionary
  9. flap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flap: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flap: Dictionary.com
  13. flap (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flap (aeronautics), Flap (aircraft), Flap (disambiguation), Flap (film), Flap (surgery), Flap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flap: Rhymezone
  19. flap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. FLAP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. flap: Free Dictionary
  23. flap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. flap: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. flap: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. flap: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Flap: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FLAP, flap: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. flap: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FLAP: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Flap: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  5. flap: Medical dictionary
  6. FLAP: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FLAP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. flap: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. F.L.A.P, Flap, The Flap: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. flap: Chapters in the Sky

(Note: See flaping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
noun:  A hinged leaf.
noun:  (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
noun:  A side fin of a ray.
noun:  The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
noun:  A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
noun:  (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
noun:  (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
noun:  (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) The labia, the vulva.
noun:  (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
noun:  (obsolete) A young prostitute.
verb:  (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
verb:  (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
verb:  (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
verb:  (phonetics, intransitive) To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
verb:  (computing, telecommunications, intransitive, of a resource or network destination) To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

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