flip-flap adv 1: with repeated strokes and noise; "something going flip- flap in the night"
Flip-flap \Flip"-flap`\, n. [See {Flip}, and {Flap}.] The repeated stroke of something long and loose. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
Flip-flap \Flip"-flap`\, adv. With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose. --Ash. [1913 Webster]