Crossword-Solution: FLAP
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
| Flap | v. | A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter. |
| Flap | v. | 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. |
| Flap | v. | A disease in the lips of horses. |
| Flap | n. | To beat with a flap; to strike. |
| Flap | n. | To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat. |
| Flap | v. i. | To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air. |
| Flap | v. i. | To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FLAP | anagram | FLPA |
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Sentences with FLAP (5)
One such incident became the focus of a minor public flap in 1990, when a gentleman born in 1889 applied for a driver's license renewal in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Then he who had sent them away stole silently to the tent flap and untying the fastenings entered with the noiselessness of a disembodied spirit.
The inhabitants flocked around me, examining my clothing, and exclaiming in wonderment at each new discovery of button, buckle, pocket, and flap.
She supposed that it sheltered a travelling circus which had come there for the Fourth; but as she drew nearer she saw, over the folded-back flap, a large sign bearing the inscription, “Gospel Tent.” The interior seemed to be empty; but a young man in a black alpaca coat, his lank hair parted over a round white face, stepped from under the flap and advanced toward her with a smile.
The thing seemed a possibility; he could not feel it, doubtless, as keenly as some people, and it hardly seemed worth while to flap his wings very hard to rise to the idea; but he could feel it enough to make any sacrifice that still remained to be made.
Quotes with FLAP (3)
Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your mother wailed on the other end of the phone, grieving her loss and complaining about the basketball of a goitre perched on her shoulder. She told you, your father walked onto the veranda and saw a chook floating ten feet above the ground. The chook didn’t flap a feather and just sat there brooding, swaying in the breeze.
Sun-struck, stuck in mid tropic strut, it sometimes standsas if considering how to cool avian plastic, dive into the mown lagoon of lawn; how take flight on dayglow flap-doodle wings, no matterif it is ball-bald going nowhere fast.
A simple flap of a butterfly's wings can change the course of your destiny forever.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 322 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).