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outflap

outflap verb: to be more flapperish than.

Verb

outflap (third-person singular simple present outflaps, present participle outflapping, simple past and past participle outflapped)

  1. (dated, humorous, rare, transitive) To be more flapperish than.
    • […] outflap the flapper; it is more important and more becoming to be optimistic, active, young in thought, with due regard for the proprieties and expectations of years of discretion.1924, William Sebastian Walsh, The Mastery of Fear, page 189
    • A morbid terror of being thought learned seemed from that moment to possess Clifton, and to make up for her neglected youth she began to outflap the veriest flapper in a stern resolve not to be taken seriously.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

Forms of outflap

third-person singular presentoutflaps
present participleoutflapping
past participleoutflapped
pastoutflapped

Origin of outflap

From out- + flap.

Questions about outflap

What does outflap mean?
Outflap means to be more flapperish than.
What part of speech is outflap?
Outflap is a verb.
What is the past tense of outflap?
The past tense of outflap is outflapped.

Words near outflap in the dictionary

  1. outflanker
  2. outflankers
  3. outflanking
  4. outflankings
  5. outflanks
  6. outflap
  7. outflapped
  8. outflapping
  9. outflaps
  10. outflare
  11. outflared

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