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What (who) is Flap - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Flaps; Flap (disambiguation)
flap
(flaps, flapping, flapped)
1.
If something such as a piece of cloth or paper flaps or if you flap it, it moves quickly up and down or from side to side.
Grey sheets flapped on the clothes line...
They would flap bath towels from their balconies as they chatted.
= flutter
VERB: V, V n
2.
If a bird or insect flaps its wings or if its wings flap, the wings move quickly up and down.
The bird flapped its wings furiously...
A pigeon emerges, wings flapping noisily, from the tower.
VERB: V pl-n, V
3.
If you flap your arms, you move them quickly up and down as if they were the wings of a bird.
...a kid running and flapping her arms.
VERB: V n
4.
A flap of cloth or skin, for example, is a flat piece of it that can move freely up and down or from side to side because it is held or attached by only one edge.
He drew back the tent flap and strode out into the blizzard.
...a loose flap of skin.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
5.
A flap on the wing of an aircraft is an area along the edge of the wing that can be raised or lowered to control the movement of the aircraft.
...the sudden slowing as the flaps were lowered.
N-COUNT
flap
1. <storage, jargon> To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap,
flap, flap). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days
when the disk was device 0 and microtapes were 1, 2,
etc. and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start a
motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk.
The term is used, by extension, for unloading any magnetic
tape. See also macrotape. Modern cartridge tapes no
longer actually flap, but the usage has remained.
The term could well be re-applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge
tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which
makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type
lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes.
2. <networking> See flapping router.
[Jargon File ]
(1997-06-17)
flap
I. n.
1.
Hanging fold.
2.
Flapping, swinging, pendulous motion.
3.
Flapping stroke, slap.
II. v. a.
Wave about, shake, beat, vibrate, flutter.
III. v. n.
1.
Wave, vibrate, move in folds, flutter noisily.
2.
Fall.
Examples of use of Flap
1. "This flap only enhances his reputation globally.
2. Don‘t Miss Obama–McCain flap: Taste of what‘s ahead?
3. The flap is also having repercussions in Hollywood.
4. Don‘t Miss Obama–McCain flap a taste of what‘s ahead?
5. Without verifiable forecasts, one expert‘s envelope flap vies with another‘s.