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Flapped

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.

    Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings.
    --Pope.

  2. To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.

    To flap in the mouth, to taunt. [Obs.]
    --W. Cartwright.

Wiktionary
flapped
  1. Fitted with a flap v

  2. (en-past of: flap)

WordNet
flap
  1. n. 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]

  3. the motion made by flapping up and down [syn: 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: flaps]

  6. [also: flapping, flapped]

flap
  1. v. move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach" [syn: roll, undulate, 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]

  4. move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" [syn: beat]

  5. make a fuss; be agitated [syn: dither, pother]

  6. pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds

  7. [also: flapping, flapped]

flapped

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Usage examples of "flapped".

His hand, gigantic next to hers, clenched and twitched as she undid the wrist fastening, and the plas-canvas fabric flapped free against the man's ribs.

She opened and closed her mouth, using exaggerated motions of her lower jaw, and flapped her hands alongside her jowls for gills.

Wringing their suits, they flapped them out as they splashed back toward the thick forest verge.

As the avian moved to guard herself, Lunzie grabbed the fold of a wing that flapped above her head, threw an arm across Birra's body, and flipped her.

The geese who were penned during the day by the main gate honked and flapped their wings, telling all who hadn't heard that there were visitors.

The light, transparent gloves flapped loose at his wrists as he clutched the ends of his couch arms.

Trouser legs of regular issue flapped about his ankles, showing regular-issue ship shoes rather than the polished leather half boots that an officer usually wore.

He flapped his hands, first indicating his busy mouth and then giving the concerned chef the `OK' sign `Spicy?

Then he was lifting Petra up in his arms - Rojer had got taller all of a sudden and muscled up, Damia noted, testing the strength of him - while Big and Sil affectionately flapped against legs which surely had got longer.

Torn curtains flapped in whatever breeze whined around the eighteenth floor.

Then the bronze leaped up, flapped his wings twice and was landing on the ledge of the Weyrwoman's quarters.

Leri flapped one hand in a careless motion, "jumped four or five months ahead?

Strips of clothing flapped out of the window and drifted to the ground.

Banners flapped lightly over the few booths still left in the Gather square.

Before him, the jib sheet flapped idly and he could hear the mainsail, behind him-aft, he corrected himself abruptly-rumbling windless as well.