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flapper

/flap-er/US // ˈflæp ər //UK // (ˈflæpə) //

挡板,喇叭口,喇叭筒,叭儿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something broad and flat used for striking or for making a noise by striking.
    • : a broad, flat, hinged or hanging piece; flap.
    • : a young woman, especially one who, during the 1920s, behaved and dressed in a boldly unconventional manner.
    • : a young bird just learning to fly.
    • : Slang. the hand.

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Examples

  • Replacing a standard flapper, generally for less than $10, is relatively easy, he says.

  • Our stereotype of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ is cocaine, nightclubs, and flapper girls.

  • Standing on the pier was a crowd of tearful fans, dressed in their best flapper frocks.

  • This 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 sick man moved a hand, weakly, as though it were the yellow flapper of some wounded amphibian.

  • The motor chugged slowly up Broadway, nosing for a path about a slowly driven truck; the flapper looked back.

  • Now in his hot rage he included the flapper in the glare he put upon her unconscious father.

  • But during pauses in the afternoon's work the island vision became blurred by the singular energies of the flapper.