Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
a flap of a garment
A hinged leaf.
the flaps of a table
A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Saterland Frisian Flappert (“wing, flipper”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a blow; slap on t...
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The flag flapped in the breeze.
For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.
Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber flapped at his first Delap throw but was given a soft free-kick by referee Antony Gautier.