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flapper board

flapper board noun: a mechanical display board, used at railway stations etc., having the text characters on individual flaps that can be rotated to form different messages.

Noun

flapper board (plural flapper boards)

  1. (historical) A mechanical display board, used at railway stations etc., having the text characters on individual flaps that can be rotated to form different messages.

Forms of flapper board

pluralflapper boards

Questions about flapper board

What does flapper board mean?
Flapper board means a mechanical display board, used at railway stations etc., having the text characters on individual flaps that can be rotated to form different messages.
What part of speech is flapper board?
Flapper board is a noun.
What is the plural of flapper board?
The plural of flapper board is flapper boards.

Words near flapper board in the dictionary

  1. flapped one's jaws
  2. flapped one's lips
  3. flapped outfall
  4. flapped outfalls
  5. flapper
  6. flapper board
  7. flapper boards
  8. flapper pie
  9. flapper pies
  10. flapper skate
  11. flapper skates

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