English
flapper
Pronunciation
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈflæpɚ/
Noun

flapper (plural flappers)

  1. (colloquial, now chiefly historical) A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum; now particularly associated with the 1920s. [from 19th c.]
    • 1910, Saki, ‘The Baker's Dozen’, Reginald in Russia:
      I paid violent and unusual attention to a flapper all through the meal in order to make you jealous.
    • 2002, Rena Sanderson, 8: Women in Fitzgerald's Fiction, Ruth Prigozy (editor), The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, page 143 ↗,
      F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known as a chronicler of the 1920s and as the writer who, more than any other, identified, delineated, and popularized the female representative of that era, the flapper. Though it is an overstatement to say that Fitzgerald created the flapper, he did, with considerable assistance from his wife Zelda, offer the public an image of a young woman who was spoiled, sexually liberated, self-centered, fun-loving, and magnetic. […] Although she is often seen now as a mere fashion of the bygone Jazz Age, the flapper should be regarded as one of the great authentic characters in American history.
Translations
  • Italian: maschietta
  • Russian: флэппер
Noun

flapper (plural flappers)

  1. Something that flap#English|flaps.
  2. (hunting) A young wild duck.
  3. A flipper; a limb of a turtle, which functions as a flipper or paddle when swimming.
    • Buckley
      The flapper of a porpoise.
  4. (plumbing) A flapper valve.
    • Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to (page 356)
      In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.
  5. (rock climbing) Any injury that results in a loose flap of skin on the fingers, making gripping difficult.


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