flapper

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: flap=per

CIDE DICTIONARY

flapper, n. 

•  One who, or that which, flaps.  [1913 Webster]
•  See Flipper.  Buckley.  [1913 Webster]

Flapper skate (Zoöl.), a European skate (Raia intermedia).

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flapper, n.
1 a person or thing that flaps.
2 an instrument that is flapped to kill flies, scare birds, etc.
3 a person who panics easily or is easily agitated.
4 sl. (in the 1920s) a young unconventional or lively woman.
5 a young mallard or partridge.

THESAURUS

flapper

Australian crawl, aide-memoire, aquaplaning, aquatics, backstroke, balneation, bathe, bathing, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, cue, diving, dog paddle, fin, fishtail, flipper, floating, hint, jogger, memorandum, natation, prompt, prompter, prompting, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, sidestroke, surfboarding, surfing, swim, swimming, tickler, treading water, wading, waterskiing

ROGET THESAURUS

flapper

Memory

N memory, remembrance, retention, retentiveness, tenacity, veteris vestigia flammae, tablets of the memory, readiness, reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration, recurrence, flashback, retrospect, retrospection, afterthought, post script, PS, suggestion, prompting, hint, reminder, remembrancer, flapper, memorial, commemoration, note, memo, memorandum, things to be remembered, token of remembrance, memento, souvenir, keepsake, relic, memorabilia, art of memory, artificial memory, memoria technica, mnemonics, mnemotechnics, phrenotypics, Mnemosyne, prompt-book, crib sheet, cheat sheet, retentive memory, tenacious memory, photographic memory, green memory, trustworthy memory, capacious memory, faithful memory, correct memory, exact memory, ready memory, prompt memory, accurate recollection, perfect memory, total recall, celebrity, fame, renown, reputation, remembering, remembered, mindful, reminiscential, retained in the memory, pent up in one's memory, fresh, green, green in remembrance, unforgotten, present to the mind, within one's memory, indelible, uppermost in one's thoughts, memorable, by heart, by rote, without book, memoriter, in memory of, in memoriam, memoria in aeterna, suggestive, manet alta mente repostum, forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit, absens haeres non erit, beatae memoriae, briefly thyself remember, mendacem memorem esse oportet, memory the warder of the brain, parsque est meminisse doloris, to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die, vox audita peril littera scripta manet, out of sight, out of mind.