flap v.2
to rob, to swindle; thus flap the dimmock v., to pay (money).
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sl. and Its Analogues. |
In phrases
(UK Und.) to trick a simpleton, to swindle an innocent victim.
| Daily Tel. 18 Aug. 3/1: He and three others of the division had cut up 70 between them, obtained by flapping a jay, which, rendered into intelligible English, means plundering a simple-minded person [F&H]. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | (con. 1930s) ‘The Last Carousel’ Texas Stories (1995) 139: We moved the minches and flapped the jays every night. |