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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Flap \Flap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flapping}.] [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. D. flappen, E. flap, n., flop, flippant, fillip.] 1. To beat with a flap; to strike. [1913 Webster] Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat. [1913 Webster] {To flap in the mouth}, to taunt. [Obs.] --W. Cartwright. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Flap \Flap\, n. [OE. flappe, flap, blow, bly-flap; cf. D. flap, and E. flap, v.] Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment. [1913 Webster] A cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] 2. A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter. [1913 Webster] 3. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing. [1913 Webster] 4. pl. (Far.) A disease in the lips of horses. [1913 Webster] 5. (Aeronautics) a movable part of an airplane wing, used to increase lift or drag, especially when taking off or landing. used often in the plural. [WordNet 1.5] {Flap tile}, a tile with a bent up portion, to turn a corner or catch a drip. {Flap valve} (Mech.), a valve which opens and shuts upon one hinged side; a clack valve. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Flap \Flap\, v. i. 1. To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air. [1913 Webster] The crows flapped over by twos and threes. --Lowell. [1913 Webster] 2. To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing. --Gay. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: flap n 1: any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of the envelope" 2: an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: {dither}, {pother}, {fuss}, {tizzy}, {flap}] 3: the motion made by flapping up and down [syn: {flap}, {flapping}, {flutter}, {fluttering}] 4: a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body 5: a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag [syn: {flap}, {flaps}] v 1: move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach" [syn: {roll}, {undulate}, {flap}, {wave}] 2: move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind" 3: move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" [syn: {beat}, {flap}] 4: move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" [syn: {beat}, {flap}] 5: make a fuss; be agitated [syn: {dither}, {flap}, {pother}] 6: pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: flap vt. 1. [obs.] To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap...). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and DEC microtapes were 1, 2,... and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. 2. By extension, to unload any magnetic tape. Modern cartridge tapes no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained. (The term could well be re-applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes.) From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: flap /flɑp/ 1. blow 2. tear