Noun

Singular flap

Plural flaps

flap (plural flaps)

1. Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
2. A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
3. An upset, stir, scandal or controversy

   The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.

4. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or the flap of a wing
5. A disease in the lips of horses.
6. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
7. (slang) Vagina

Synonyms

• (upset): Wikisaurus:commotion

Flap

Flap may refer to:

• Flap (aircraft), a hinged surface on the trailing edge of an airplane wing
• Roof flap, an aerodynamic feature of race cars
• Flapping, one of the basic mechanics of flight in birds
• Flap, any hinged plate often used as a cover or a simple one-way valve
  • Cat flap, a hinged flap that allows a cat to enter or leave a room or building
  • Butt flap, a separately removable part of underwear (un)covering the buttocks
  • Sluice or flap gate, a pressure driven water flow control device between a channel and other water body
• Flap consonant, a sound produced by brief contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth
  • Intervocalic alveolar flapping, a process by which a /t/ phoneme before an unstressed vowel is pronounced as a flap consonant
• Free flap, a surgical transfer of vascularised tissue
• Flap, a minor character from Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
• Route flapping, when a router alternately advertises a destination network first via one route then another
• Brouhaha, a general state of social agitation
• 5-lipoxygenase activating protein (FLAP)