flap

flap is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as verb, noun, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. verb. 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. verb. A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
3. verb. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
4. verb. A disease in the lips of horses.
5. noun. To beat with a flap; to strike.
6. noun. To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
7. intransitive verb. To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
8. intransitive verb. To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
9. noun. any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely

   "he wrote on the flap of the envelope"

10. noun. a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag

    Synonyms: flaps

11. noun. a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
12. noun. the motion made by flapping up and down

    Synonyms: flapping, flutter, fluttering

13. noun. an excited state of agitation

    "he was in a dither"

    "there was a terrible flap about the theft"

    Synonyms: dither, fuss, pother, tizzy

14. verb. pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
15. verb. make a fuss; be agitated

    Synonyms: dither, pother

16. verb. move noisily

    "flags flapped in the strong wind"

17. verb. move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion

    "The curtains undulated"

    "the waves rolled towards the beach"

    Synonyms: roll, undulate, wave

18. verb. move with a flapping motion

    "The bird's wings were flapping"

    Synonyms: beat

19. verb. move with a thrashing motion

    "The bird flapped its wings"

    "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"

    Synonyms: beat

Synonyms

flaps, flapping, flutter, fluttering, dither, fuss, pother, tizzy, roll, undulate, wave, beat

Common word forms

flaps, flapped, flapper, flapless, flapping

Words from these letters

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