flip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: flips
Etymology: Alteration of earlier fillip, from Middle English filippen (“to make a signal or sound with thumb and right forefinger, snap the fingers”), an attenuated variation of flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”). Cognate with Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”).
Senses: examples: text: We'll decide this on a flip of a coin.
text: The diver did a couple of flips before landing in the pool.
glosses: A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
synonyms: inversion
swap
glosses: A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
examples: text: […] who looked at Dean a moment, crossed over the stage to him, raised himself on his toes, dashed his own hat firmly down to his ears, and every one on the stage supposed Dean was about to receive a flip on the ear or nose.
ref: 1851, Falconbridge, Dan. Marble: A Biographical Sketch, page 98:
synonyms: flick
glosses: A fillip or light blow.
examples: text: I don't care a flip for what he says.
synonyms: word: bit
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A whit or jot; the tiniest amount.
examples: text: He loaded his flip and took careful aim at what he considered to be Emily's most vulnerable spot […]
ref: 1986, George Scarbrough, A summer ago, page 123:
glosses: A slingshot.
examples: text: Justin Bieber and Zac Efron are among the celebrities who wore a flip.
glosses: A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960s–70s and 2000s–10s, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out
examples: text: What they bring to the table is hard-won brass-tacks knowledge from over fifteen years of personal investing as well as riding shotgun on over 1,000 flips with their clients.
ref: 2007, Rick Villani, Clay Davis, Gary Keller, Flip: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit, page viii:
glosses: The purchase of an asset (usually a house) which is then improved and sold quickly for profit.
examples: text: In the case of rifles flip is counteracted by the sighting of the weapons, and it is because of flip that the sights cannot be set so that the line of sight is exactly parallel to the axis of the bore.
ref: 1961, Sir Gerald Burrard, The gun. The cartridge, page 224:
text: A small, lightweight round, such as a .22 LR, generates very manageable recoil and muzzle flip (how much the nose of the gun flips up when you fire it).
ref: 2015, Tara Dixon Engel, The Handgun Guide for Women, page 33:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The tendency of a gun's barrel to jerk about at the moment of firing.
Derived terms: word: flipple
sense: Compound words and expressions with this term at the beginning
word: flipboard
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word: flip book
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word: flipcard
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word: flip chart
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word: flip chip
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word: flip clock
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word: flip cup
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word: flip-flap
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word: flipflash
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word: flip flop
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word: flip-flop → flip-flopper
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word: flip-flop operator
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word: flip-fuck
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word: flip-in
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word: flipism
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word: flipless
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word: flip mode
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word: flippase
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word: flip-phone
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word: flippy
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word: flippy disk
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word: flip shit
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word: flip side
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word: flip smartphone
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word: flip teaching
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word: flip throw
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word: flip-top
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word: flip turn
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word: flip-up
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word: flip-ups
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word: flip wipe
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word: frontflip
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word: asset flip
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word: backflip
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word: bistellar flip
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word: bitflip
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word: candy flip
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word: catch you on the flip side
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word: coin flip
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word: egg flip
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word: gender-flip
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word: Haakon flip
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word: hardflip
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word: headflip
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word: heelflip
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word: kickflip
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word: Korbut flip
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word: lip flip
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word: Miller flip
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word: misflip
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word: misty flip
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word: monkey flip
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word: on the flip side
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word: port flip
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word: Porto flip
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word: reflip
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word: skid flip
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word: sunset flip
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word: superflip
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word: tailflip
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word: underflip
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word: unflip