[ˈflapə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- (in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behaviour
(e.g: she sported bobbed hair and the long-waisted, short-skirted dress of a flapper)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 19th century (originally in the sense ‘teenage girl’): perhaps from the noun flap in the dialect sense ‘newly fledged wild duck or partridge’ (or ‘woman of loose character’)