Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fillip.
- noun A fippenny bit.
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- noun US, obsolete
fippenny bit
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just another fip-flopper of the Billary Clinton campaign ...
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My tube pan does not have a removable bottom, so I should flip it out of the pan and then fip it right side up again?
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Not only has he fip-floped on so many subjects but he himself has played the race card.
Obama or McCain? 2008
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He fip-floped yet agian saying that those people where expresing veiws in which he did not share.
Obama or McCain? 2008
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Pepper is fip-floppin', because he won't be able to stand the heat in the kitchen, that is the new kind of mayor's seat of authority.
Pepper Flip Flop: Executive Mayor Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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He got up, grasping his hanger to keep the brass fip of the scabbard from rattling on the floor, and padded across the sanctuary.
Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996
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Well, I coaxed Cale to 'gree to wuck one monfh for heseff and de oder monfh fur massa, and I come home; but it warn't ob no use; Cale would wuck, but massa neber seed a fip ob de pay.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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I bet ye a fip ef hit wus a show with hosses an 'gals ur singin' niggurs he'd bust a biler to go.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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"I'll bet a fip Uncle Ned will say: 'Well, he's another notch nearer hell.'"
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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A fip in Maryland was six and a quarter cents, called fourpence in
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