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Flip

noun

1.

An acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return. Synonyms: somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault, summerset.

2.

Hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg.

3.

A sudden, quick movement. "The fish flipped over"

4.

The act of flipping a coin. Synonym: toss.

5.

A dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water.

6.

(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team. Synonyms: pass, toss.

verb

(past & past part. flipped; pres. part. flipping)

1.

Lightly throw to see which side comes up. Synonym: toss.

2.

Cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation. Synonyms: switch, throw. "Throw the lever"

3.

Look through a book or other written material. Synonyms: flick, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb. "She leafed through the volume"

4.

Toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air. Synonym: twitch.

5.

Cause to move with a flick. Synonym: flick.

6.

Throw or toss with a light motion. Synonyms: pitch, sky, toss. "Toss me newspaper"

7.

Move with a flick or light motion.

8.

Turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse. Synonyms: flip over, turn over. "Turn over the pancakes"

9.

React in an excited, delighted, or surprised way. Synonym: flip out.

10.

Go mad, go crazy. Synonym: flip out.

11.

Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action). Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, interchange, switch, tack.

adjective

1.

Marked by casual disrespect. Synonyms: impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed. "The student was kept in for impudent behavior"

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"Flip" Quotes from Famous Books

... the matter off by saying, 'I see the price of eggs has gone up again', but Bill gave him a punch on the snout that bent it like a carrot, and Sam caught the Wombat such a flip with his flapper that he ...

— The Magic Pudding • Norman Lindsay

... hospital-ward when I left, against the arrival of your mangled corpse. She had also ordered the wagon prepared like an ambulance, mattresses, chloroform, bandages—every gruesome detail complete. Our Jemima," she said, "is having the time of her life—isn't she, Reverend Flip?" ...

— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly

... and laughed in the Dutchman's face. Crossing to the larder, he brought down a bottle, cracking the neck on the beam above, just as he had done the night before. A wave of apprehension overcame Peter as he realized the old flip attitude of Mirestone's was coming back. That meant definite trouble, and Peter began to fear ...

— The White Feather Hex • Don Peterson

... blotted from view by the tunnel it frightened her at first with its long, dark noise and the flip-flops of light. Then a brief glimpse of towers and walls. Then the dark station. And they ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... water, and the trout rose from the river-bed to feed. At first they "sported" ravenously, rising quick and sure to any insect their marvellous vision might discern. Afterwards they fed daintily, disabling and drowning with a flip of the tail many an insect that fluttered at the surface, and choosing from their various victims some unusually tasty morsel, such as a female "February red" about to lay her eggs. At this time, also, the plump, cream-coloured larvae of the stone-fly in the shallows ...

— Creatures of the Night - A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain • Alfred W. Rees

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