The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flapdragon
Flapdragon \Flap"drag`on\, n.
A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.
--Johnson.-
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.
Wiktionary
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.