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flapper
[ flap-er ]
flapper
/ ˈflæpə /
noun
- a person or thing that flaps
- (in the 1920s) a young woman, esp one flaunting her unconventional dress and behaviour
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Other Words From
- flapper·dom noun
- flapper·ish adjective
- flapper·ism noun
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Example Sentences
Replacing a standard flapper, generally for less than $10, is relatively easy, he says.
Our stereotype of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ is cocaine, nightclubs, and flapper girls.
Standing on the pier was a crowd of tearful fans, dressed in their best flapper frocks.
This brings us to the flapper, the suffragette, and, finally, that über-American icon: the screen siren.
Fleur was not a flapper, not one of those slangy, ill-bred young females.
The sick man moved a hand, weakly, as though it were the yellow flapper of some wounded amphibian.
The motor chugged slowly up Broadway, nosing for a path about a slowly driven truck; the flapper looked back.
Now in his hot rage he included the flapper in the glare he put upon her unconscious father.
But during pauses in the afternoon's work the island vision became blurred by the singular energies of the flapper.
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