flapper
Noun
Meaning
One who, or that which, flaps.
See Flipper.
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Audience members came dressed in suits or flapper dresses, and stood drinking in a grand room of a London townhouse, decorated in the style of a 1920s bar.
But when there is too much slack in the chain, the flush arm cannot lift the flapper high enough to start the flush cycle--unless you hold the handle down.
“Galloping Grandma!” was about a new breed of older woman who denied her true years, dressing like a flapper, driving recklessly, and flirting with abandon.
It’s a millennial stereotype to have nostalgia for a distant past or to believe they were “born in the wrong decade,” longing for flapper dances, or '50s diner milkshakes, or seeing Nirvana live.
Athletics was my sport and I often won the mile race at flapper meetings in Cong, Finney and other meets.”
Then in the modern day the biblical serpent is replaced by Eve's gossiping neighbor and Eve becomes a sexy flapper and fashion model when Adam is at work.