flapper
Origin of flapper
1Other words from flapper
- flap·per·dom, noun
- flap·per·ish, adjective
- flap·per·ism, noun
Words Nearby flapper
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How to use flapper in a sentence
Replacing a standard flapper, generally for less than $10, is relatively easy, he says.
How to tackle the home maintenance to-do list you ignored during the pandemic | Jura Koncius | June 24, 2021 | Washington PostOur stereotype of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ is cocaine, nightclubs, and flapper girls.
Sarah Waters: Queen of the Tortured Lesbian Romance | Tim Teeman | September 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTStanding on the pier was a crowd of tearful fans, dressed in their best flapper frocks.
Tallulah Bankhead: Gay, Drunk and Liberated in an Era of Excess Art | Judith Mackrell | January 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis 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 Forsyte Saga, Volume III. | John Galsworthy
The sick man moved a hand, weakly, as though it were the yellow flapper of some wounded amphibian.
The Shadow | Arthur StringerThe motor chugged slowly up Broadway, nosing for a path about a slowly driven truck; the flapper looked back.
Bunker Bean | Harry Leon WilsonNow in his hot rage he included the flapper in the glare he put upon her unconscious father.
Bunker Bean | Harry Leon WilsonBut during pauses in the afternoon's work the island vision became blurred by the singular energies of the flapper.
Bunker Bean | Harry Leon Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for flapper
/ (ˈflæpə) /
a person or thing that flaps
(in the 1920s) a young woman, esp one flaunting her unconventional dress and behaviour
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