Klappe

• pl.Klappen

1. flap, every technical or natural implement that is bound in front of something or a body part of someone or a beast to obstruct leakage or immissions in either direction and is removed under preintended conditions.ellipsis of Schiffsklappe
2. flap, every technical or natural implement that is bound in front of something or a body part of someone or a beast to obstruct leakage or immissions in either direction and is removed under preintended conditions.any technical piece of equipment bound in front of a beast to obstruct its movement or vision, as a muzzle or twitch or barnacle (tendentially a muzzle, while a twitch preferredly bears the form Kluppe or Knuppe)
3. gob, mouth
4. cottage, tea room (public toilet or similar place used by men seeking sex with other men, for cottaging)
5. whip, scourge
6. ellipsis of Fliegenklappe (“fly swatter”)
7. buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata); also Ziegenklappe and both as a plurale tantum