flapping — İngilizce Sözlük

Sıfat

1. that flaps or flap

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   • not-comparable

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   flapping sails

İsim

1. An instance where one, or something, flaps.

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   The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.

2. A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap [ɾ] before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.

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3. The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

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4. The unlicensed racing of horses or greyhounds.

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   Greyhound racing had its origins in whippet racing, which was derived in turn from hare coursing. By the early twentieth century, however, a form of dog racing held in 'flapping tracks' was a common pastime in the wastelands near working-class areas of industrial cities.

   Flapping is racing which is not licensed by the Jockey Club. […] Anyone found participating in, or even attending, flapping races is liable to be warned off.

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   Flapping is the arse end of greyhound racing, the lowest of the low. Part sport, part fairground attraction, flapping is the bare-knuckle fighting of dog racing.

İsim

1. the motion made by flapping up and down

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   flapflutterfluttering

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