flap down

1. 1.

   throw violently

   “He slammed the book on the table”

   Synonymsslam

   Broaderthrow

Questions about flap down

What does flap down mean?

flap down means "throw violently".

What is another word for flap down?

Close synonyms include slam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flap down a common word?

flap down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.