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Definition of Flapper
1. Noun. A young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress.
Definition of Flapper
1. n. One who, or that which, flaps.
Definition of Flapper
1. Noun. (context: colloquial now chiefly historical) A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum; now particularly associated with the 1920s. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹
2. Noun. That which flaps. ¹
3. Noun. A flipper. ¹
4. Noun. (context: plumbing) A flapper valve in a toilet-flushing mechanism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flapper
1. one that flaps [n -S] - See also: flaps
Medical Definition of Flapper
1.
1. One who, or that which, flaps.
2. See Flipper. "The flapper of a porpoise.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flapper
Literary usage of Flapper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Fishes of the British Islands by Jonathan Couch (1868)
"The people of that country were accustomed to call it the flapper Skate.
His description of the characters by which he would distinguish it are,—the upper ..."
2. New Poems by David Herbert Lawrence (1920)
"flapper LOVE has crept out of her sealed heart As a field-bee, black and amber,
Breaks from the winter-cell, to clamber Up the warm grass where the sunbeams ..."
3. My Impressions of America by Margot Asquith (1922)
"HOLLAND PULLMAN CAR INCONVENIENCES — MARGOT SEES HER FIRST flapper AFTER travelling
all night in a train that would not be tolerated for a day in England, ..."
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