How to pronounce“flapping”in English
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Definitions of “flapping”
that flaps or flap
“flapping sails”
An instance where one, or something, flaps.
“The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.”
A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap [ɾ] before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.
present participle and gerund of flap
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