flappers

1. A nickname given to young women in the 1920s who defied convention by refusing to use corsets, cutting their hair short, and wearing short skirts, as well as by behavior such as drinking and smoking in public. ( See Jazz Age and Roaring Twenties .)

Example Sentences

To replicate the columnar formations of birds, in which they line up one directly behind the other, the researchers created mechanized flappers that act like birds' wings.

From Science Daily

Next steps from the robotics perspective will include working with material scientists to equip the flappers with muscle-like materials.

From Science Daily

Substitute today’s opposition to drag shows for the Klan’s campaign against changing morals and uncorseted flappers and you have another haunt of history.

From Washington Post

Lurking behind the era’s glitzy flappers and Wall Street speculators was a collective trauma of both the war and the pandemic.

From Washington Post

I think flappers and waifs could feel the impending doom.

From Los Angeles Times