n. 1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing thus caught and eaten. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

See how the sea flapdragoned it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) (a) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated Antirrhinum majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon. (b) A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]