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n. - Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; A movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body;

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  • He wrote on the flap of the envelope
  • There was a terrible flap about the theft
  • This flap is about the stupidist thing I have ever heard of.
  • That’s precisely a lot of what all the flap is about!
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  • The "flop" (a failure) of the Broadway play caused a "flap" (a scandal) among local critics.
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