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  • adjective Having a tendency to flip.
  • noun computing a flippy disk

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Examples

  • Daniel wins very big, all the while doing a kind of flippy-floppy hope-and-victory dance that looks like a Saturday Night Live schtick and has Bob Barker in disoriented stitches.

    Boing Boing: December 28, 2003 - January 3, 2004 Archives 2003

  • My standard outfit in the summer is a Gap t-shirt and either capris or some kind of flippy skirt.

    cubiclegirl Diary Entry cubiclegirl 2003

  • If it were a simple "flippy" disk, I wouldn't have blogged about it.

    the-inbetween.com 2008

  • "flippy" disk where one side is IBM and the other side is C64 or Apple - until I looked at the FAT12 for the disk and saw that tons of sectors in an interleaved pattern were marked as BAD - very strange usage.

    the-inbetween.com 2008

  • This prez is the biggest flippy flopper I've ever seen!

    Obama delays Hawaii vacation over Senate vote 2009

  • I always thought a physical implementation would sound like “click clack click click click clack clack clack clack …” Kind of like the mechanical crossbars, kind of like the big alphanumeric flippy displays at railroad stations and airports.

    Intro to Rod Logic « The Half-Baked Maker 2009

  • Rights, illegal immigration (you know, that flippy-floppy thing is in his future), and wants people to "buy in on their agenda".

    Analysis: Florida's Rubio, an outsider, avoids establishment label 2010

  • It's got lots of fun layers now so maybe it will be cute straight and a little flippy.

    The new 'do jpitta 2010

  • The exhibit is a must-see, with memorabilia including Grace Slick's fringe vest, Madonna's gold bustier, Meg White's striped drum, Britney's 2000 VMAs outfit, trippy Stevie Nicks chiffon, a flippy wig from the B-52s, a fake fur from Siouxsie Sioux, Kim Deal's bass, a Supreme's minidress bought off-the-rack on Rodeo Drive.

    S.X. Rosenstock: Women Who Rock: LA Stories from the Rock Hall of Fame's New Show S.X. Rosenstock 2011

  • The exhibit is a must-see, with memorabilia including Grace Slick's fringe vest, Madonna's gold bustier, Meg White's striped drum, Britney's 2000 VMAs outfit, trippy Stevie Nicks chiffon, a flippy wig from the B-52s, a fake fur from Siouxsie Sioux, Kim Deal's bass, a Supreme's minidress bought off-the-rack on Rodeo Drive.

    S.X. Rosenstock: Women Who Rock: LA Stories from the Rock Hall of Fame's New Show S.X. Rosenstock 2011

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