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One flustering young woman once
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flapper
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A flapper had the body of an adolescent boy, not a grown-up woman. ▪ She would pave the way for a much more slender ideal: the flapper . ▪ The flapper had to be a good consumer, keeping up with fashion and buying the latest in ...
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Flapper may refer to: Flapper , a young, trendy woman in the 1920s Flapper, an unlicensed, unregulated working class greyhound racing practitioner in England, Scotland, and Ireland The Flapper , a movie about flappers from 1920 Flappers (TV series) , a ...
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Etymology 1 n. (context colloquial now chiefly historical English) A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum; now particularly associated with the 1920s. (from 19th c.) Etymology 2 n. 1 Something that flaps. 2 A flipper; a limb of ...
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n. a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress
Usage examples of flapper.
Krubi was captivated, and when the seal was finished and awkwardly ambled on its flappers round and back to the water for the purpose of diving and playing, Krubi went out knee-deep in the tumbling waves and watched.
Its deductive approach, even to the measurement of clothing, results in complete ineptitude, and its array of abstract misfits, flappers, and adulterous wives, fleshes out the impression that the Laputans not only have the wrong idea but insist in imposing that idea universally.
Flapper into the bay that covered the site of Prefs, Tenthag surveyed the vicinity with his telescope.
Flapper broke the water into glowing ripples as she fed on drifting weed and occasional fish, he stared achingly at the sky wherever it was clear of cloud and wondered about voyages across space.
In fact the titles could be anything-or (with some of the most puissant) no title at all, but they could all be identified as "flappers" by function: each one held arbitrary and concatenative veto over any attempted communication from the outside world to the Great Man who was the nominal superior of the flapper.
Whole lot of whoopee going on back then, flappers flapping, drunk on bathtub gin, ladies holding on to their brimless cloche hats as they indulged in the new sport of motoring.
A group of flappers swooped down in a group, battering at the car bodily and enfolding the target within their leathery shapes, smothering it beneath their weight.
The sound of flappers drowned the wail of jets and the throb of helicopters.
A hundred flappers had surrounded the Marine commander's chopper and brought it down, and after that there was no one in charge: just parties of desperate men holding where they could, trying to form a breakwater against the Swarm tide.
The android dived onto the tank, picked up flappers, tore them like paper.
She was held aloft by the cloak she filled with the winds she generated, and she battered at the flappers with typhoons, flinging them, tearing them apart.
The importance of a public personage could be estimated by the number of layers of flappers cutting him off from ready congress with the plebian mob.
They existed in benign Symbiosis with the official barricade of flappers, since it was recognized almost universally that the tighter the system the more need for a safety valve.
With a personage of foremost importance, such as the Secretary General of the World Federation of Free States, the maze of by-passes through unofficials would be as formidable as were the official phalanges of flappers surrounding a person merely very important.
The Martian Old Ones, not hampered by bodies subject to space-time, would have had as little use for flappers as a snake has for shoes.