mudflap

See also: mud flap

English

Etymology

mud +‎ flap

Noun

mudflap (plural mudflaps)

1. A rectangular flap mounted near the wheel of a motor vehicle (especially a truck) to prevent mud or rocks from being thrown up (by the wheel), either onto the body panels or into the path of vehicles following behind.
   • 2007 February 1, Cathy Horyn, “The Good, the Bad, the Amusing”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Yohji Yamamoto showed Alpine knits with cropped black trousers, fresh-looking coats in vanilla-colored wool, and knits and other wool colors embellished with the sort of female pinup images you see on old gas-station calendars or on the mudflaps of an 18-wheeler.

Derived terms

• mudflap girl

Translations

A rectangular flap mounted near the wheel of a truck to prevent mud from being thrown up onto the vehicle

• Bulgarian: калобран m (kalobran)
• Dutch: spatlap (nl) m
• French: bavette (fr) f
• German: schmutzfanger
• Malay: kepak lumpur
• Maori: pare po(w)haru
• Russian: брызгови́к (ru) m (bryzgovík)
• Spanish: guardabarros (es) m

See also

• kickup