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Flapdragon

Flapdragon \Flap"drag`on\, n.

  1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.
    --Johnson.

  2. The thing thus caught and eaten.
    --Johnson.

    Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night.
    --C. Kingsley.

Flapdragon

Flapdragon \Flap"drag`on\, v. t. To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.]

See how the sea flapdragoned it.
--Shak.

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flapdragon

n. 1 A game in which the players snatch raisins out of burning brandy and swallow them blazing. 2 Any of the raisins in this game.