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Klapped vs Flapped - What's the difference?

klapped | flapped |

As verbs the difference between klapped and flapped

is that klapped is (klap) while flapped is (flap).

klapped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (klap)

    • klap

    English

    Verb

    (klapp)
  • (South Africa, slang, transitive) To strike; to smack.
  • * 2005 , Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex
    • You did something wrong and he klapped you.
  • * 2010 , Tony Park, Silent Predator (page 51)
    • 'I told him that the time wouldn't be right if we were the only two people left in the world, and then I klapped him, good and hard across the face.'
    ----

    flapped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flap)

    • flap

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • a cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx
  • *
  • A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
  • An upset, stir, scandal or controversy
  • The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
  • * , chapter=4
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
  • A disease in the lips of horses.
  • (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
  • (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
  • (slang) The female genitals.

    • Synonyms

    * (upset)

    See also

    * ("flap" on Wikipedia) * * lappet

    Verb

    (flapp)
  • To move (something broad and loose) back and forth.
    • The crow slowly flapped its wings.
  • *
  • To move loosely back and forth.
    • The flag flapped in the breeze.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 29 , author=Tom Rostance , title=Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber flapped at his first Delap throw but was given a soft free-kick by referee Antony Gautier.}}

    Derived terms

    * cat flap * flapper * unflappable ----