flip-flap Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb with repeated strokes and noise
    • something going flip-flap in the night

WordNet

Flip"-flap` noun
Etymology
See Flip, and Flap.
Definitions
  1. The repeated stroke of something long and loose. Johnson.
Flip"-flap` adverb
Definitions
  1. With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose. Ash.

Webster 1913