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- noun Plural form of
backflip .
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Examples
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If it gets to $40 million, that would make Kevin Smith do backflips, which is probably not something you want to see.
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Immigration is such a litmus test among some in the Republican party – look at the backflips John McCain had to do – that anything other than the hardest line, including building a ridiculously expensive and unfeasible fence, is seen as soft.
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In fact, there's only one other thing that's certain about this red-hot news: Somewhere Kristoff St. John is doing backflips!
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It's interesting how many backflips conservatives do to avoid giving the Clinton Administration credit for anything.
Lighthouses, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Simple, easy to collect and in place — why go through all the complicated backflips you describe?
Matthew Yglesias » Doubts About a Vehicle-Miles Traveled Tax 2009
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With the gold medal in hand, he did his final run in that same sequence, only ended it with the McTwist, which gave him a total of six backflips and 11 rotations.
Analysis: What's next for Shaun White and men's snowboarding? 2010
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Sometimes the words are doing backflips and spinning on their heads.
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I don't do as many silly things as I used to, like doing backflips in the garden with my brothers or climb trees.
Carl Froch 'fitter than ever' for Andre Ward Showtime Super Six fight 2011
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His power chord was a super-sized Double McTwist 1260, two backflips with 3.5 rotations of his board.
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The fabulous Baker boy looked only slightly less uncomfortable when he was doing backflips on Strictly Come Dancing.
Media Monkey's Diary 2011
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