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• n  the act of moving back and forth
• n  abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block
• n  a disorderly outburst or tumult
• n  the motion made by flapping up and down
• v  move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
• v  move back and forth very rapidly
• v  flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements
  The seagulls fluttered overhead
• v  beat rapidly
• v  wink briefly

• Last week history was made amid the flutter of colorful balloons, the sputtering of rattletrap Trabants and Wartburgs and -- pop! -- the burst of champagne corks.
• The only movement that suggests human habitation is the flutter of laundry on clotheslines.
• They brought the green, red and gold banner of Bengal out of secret hiding places to flutter freely from buildings, while huge pictures of their imprisoned leader, Sheik .

• waver
• flicker
• disturbance
• disruption
• commotion
• hurly burly
• to-do
• hoo-ha
• hoo-hah
• kerfuffle
• flap
• flapping
• fluttering
• flit
• fleet
• dart
• flitter
• quiver
• palpitate
• bat

News & Articles

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• Unique environment at Mill Creek about to get a science-based makeover
  From the edge of a bridge we watched two rainbow trout holding tight in a deep, clear pool along fast-flowing Mill Creek, the fish waiting for something tasty to flutter onto the surface.
  June 13, 2013 - The Springfield News-Leader
• Porn and facial recognition: Sorry glassholes, not today
  Google Glass is all the rage on the interwebs lately. The nerds are a-flutter at the Internet-integrated glasses that make it incredibly awkward to have a human exchange with someone wearing them, so much so that a new term has come about for the glasses wearers: glasshole . Unfortunately the pervy-est of nerds won't be able to extend the most intimate relationship they've had with their ...
  June 10, 2013 - Creative Loafing Charlotte
• 'Skitter Flutter' sound sculpture
  visual1sound0505: 'Skitter Flutter,' a sound installation by Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, opens May 10 at SeedSpace Gallery. At last fall’s Sound Crawl festival, Robbie Lynn Hunsinger premiered a composition she called “Arduino and Sax duet for robotic drummer.”
  June 8, 2013 - The Journal News

Quotes

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• Buck Pierce in TSN
  It was nice,Pierce said with a smile. "I even caught myself looking at the ball in the air a little bit, thinking, `That's kind of a pretty ball flying through the air.' Not a flutter or anything and Terrence ran under it and he did the...
• Jennifer Lopez in The Gossip Girls (blog)
  Then one day while she was getting her hair and makeup done, Jennifer explains: "I felt a flutter. The weirdest little ...... flourish," she recalls. "My makeup artist said, 'What's the matter?' I didn't say anything, but in my head, I was...
• Sharon Osbourne in PR Newswire (press release)
  Sharon Osbourne says, "The developers at Microgaming have done a fantastic job at bringing all our family to life within the game and they've even managed to immortalise my beloved dog, Minnie! I'll certainly have a little flutter when it's...