Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that flips.
- noun A wide flat limb, as of a seal, whale, or other aquatic mammal, adapted for swimming.
- noun A flat lever in a pinball machine, used to hit the ball so it stays in play.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A limb used to swim with.
- noun The hand: as, give us your flipper.
- noun Part of a scene, hinged and painted on both sides, used in trick changes.
- noun A flapjack; a kind of griddle-cake.
- noun In a sawmill, a steam-operated device for flipping, upsetting, or throwing over a log, cant, or piece of timber from a set of live rolls to other rolls, or for throwing a log out of the log-slide to the log-deck preparatory to rolling it down the sloping deck to the log-loader.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
- noun (Naut.), Slang The hand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun in
marine mammals such aswhales , awide flat limb ,adapted forswimming - noun a flat, wide,
paddle -likerubber covering for thefoot , used in swimming - noun a flat
lever in apinball machine , used to keep theball inplay - noun cricket A type of
ball bowled by aleg spin bowler , whichspins backwards andskids off thepitch with alow bounce - noun informal, US television
remote control ,clicker - noun dated, slang The
hand . - noun dentistry A kind of
false tooth , usuallytemporary . - verb To lift one or both flipper out of the water and
slap the surface of the water
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
- noun the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming
Etymologies
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Examples
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A few days after my upper left first bicuspid was yanked, my dentist gave me what he calls a flipper, a dead ringer for a real tooth, aged to match the rest of my flawed set.
In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010
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In other words, imagine that the coin flipper has a head in his hand.
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In other words, imagine that the coin flipper has a head in his hand.
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[2] REST It's hard to imagine an accessory more untrendy than "flipper" - style rests.
Five Add-Ons to Make Your Compound Bow a Quieter Hunting Machine 2007
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Reference to the diagrams will show that the tormentors have a "flipper," which runs to the proscenium arch wall; in the flipper is usually a door or a curtained opening for the entrances and exits of acts in One.
Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page
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Here’s the problem with the coin example: you’re assuming that the flipper is flipping both coins, and then saying, “One of them is a head.”
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Here’s the problem with the coin example: you’re assuming that the flipper is flipping both coins, and then saying, “One of them is a head.”
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A person would have to be a very bad coin flipper to get results that are worse than those shown in the S&P study.
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A person would have to be a very bad coin flipper to get results that are worse than those shown in the S&P study.
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A person would have to be a very bad coin flipper to get results that are worse than those shown in the S&P study.
bilby commented on the word flipper
Cricket jargon - a kind of delivery that is bowled or flipped from the front of the hand so as to make the spin of the ball square on to the pitch. On a hard pitch the ball will skid and confuse the batsman. Not a dolphin.
November 30, 2007