meaning of flap

1. Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
2. A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
3. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
4. A disease in the lips of horses.
5. To beat with a flap; to strike.
6. To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
7. To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
8. To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
9. flap 1. 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 DECs 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. See flapping router. [Jargon File]
10. any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of the ">envelope"

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