flapper

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A young girl usually between the ages of 15 and 18, especially one not "out" socially.

   “Stud's eyes roved. Plenty of girls, most of them young flappers, Loretta's age. Only a couple of years ago they were kids.”

2. isim A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum or displaying daring freedom or boldness; now particularly associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s.

   “I paid violent and unusual attention to a flapper all through the meal in order to make you jealous. She's probably in her cabin writing reams about me to a fellow-flapper at this very moment.”

3. isim One who or that which flaps.
4. isim A young game bird just able to fly, particularly a wild duck.

   “Small fish, and frog and fish spawn are also eaten, and the ducklings feed upon many species of animalculæ, flies, pollywogs and worms, etc., disturbed by heavy rains which wash the banks, while the young ducks are passing to the "flapper" stage.”

5. isim A flipper; a limb of a turtle, which functions as a flipper or paddle when swimming.

   “the flapper of a porpoise”

6. isim A flapper valve.

   “In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.”

7. isim The hand.
8. isim Any injury that results in a loose flap of skin on the fingers, making gripping difficult.