flap

Definitions

• Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
• A hinged leaf.
• (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
• A side fin of a ray.
• The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
• A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
• (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
• (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
• (veterinary medicine) A disease in the lips of horses.
• (slang) Chiefly in the : the female genitals.
• (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
• (obsolete) A young prostitute.