Usually means: Rapid, repetitive movement of wings.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. flapping: Merriam-Webster
  2. flapping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flapping: Collins English Dictionary
  4. flapping: Vocabulary.com
  5. Flapping, flapping: Wordnik
  6. flapping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. flapping: Wiktionary
  8. Flapping, flapping: Dictionary.com
  9. flapping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Flapping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Flapping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. flapping: Rhymezone
  13. Flapping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. flapping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. flapping: FreeDictionary.org
  16. flapping: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. flapping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flapping: Linktionary Networking Glossary
  2. flapping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flapping: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flapping: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flapping: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. flapping: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See flap as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (flapping)

adjective:  that flaps or flap
noun:  An instance where one flaps.
noun:  (phonology) 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.
noun:  (computing, telecommunications) 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.
noun:  (uncountable) The unlicensed racing of horses or greyhounds.

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