flutter
f luh ter
- 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 .