Flip-flap \Flip"-flap`\, n. [See {Flip}, and {Flap}.]
The repeated stroke of something long and loose. --Johnson.
Flip-flap \Flip"-flap`\, adv.
With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and
loose. --Ash.
flip-flap
adv : with repeated strokes and noise; "something going flip-flap
in the night"