Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To throw or toss with a light brisk motion.
- intransitive verb To toss in the air, imparting a spin.
- intransitive verb To cause to turn over or around, especially with a light quick motion.
- intransitive verb To turn through (papers, for example); leaf.
- intransitive verb To strike quickly or lightly; flick.
- intransitive verb To move or act on with a quick motion.
- intransitive verb To change or reverse (one's position or attitude).
- intransitive verb To buy and resell (a house, for example) in a short period of time for a profit.
- intransitive verb To turn over from one side to another or end over end.
- intransitive verb To turn a somersault, especially in the air.
- intransitive verb To move up and down in twists and turns.
- intransitive verb To move quickly and lightly; snap.
- intransitive verb To leaf; browse.
- intransitive verb To change one's mind, especially on a political position.
- intransitive verb To go crazy.
- intransitive verb To react strongly and especially enthusiastically.
- noun The act of flipping, especially.
- noun A flick or tap.
- noun A short, quick movement.
- noun A somersault.
- noun Informal A reversal; a flipflop.
- noun A mixed drink made with any of various alcoholic beverages and often including beaten eggs.
- adjective Marked by casual disrespect; impertinent.
- idiom (flip (one's) lid) To react strongly, as with anger or enthusiasm.
- idiom (flip (one's) lid) To go crazy.
- idiom Slang (flip (someone) off) To make an obscene gesture toward (someone); give the finger to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mixture of which ale, beer, or cider is the chief ingredient, sweetened, spiced, made sometimes with eggs (see
egg-flip ), and drunk hot. - noun A fillip; a flick; a snap.
- Nimble; flippant.
- To fillip; tap lightly; twitch.
- To flick, as with a whip.
- To toss with a snap of the thumb, or the like: as, to
flip up a penny in playing “heads and tails.” - To flap.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To become insane or irrational; -- often used with out.
- noun A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
- noun an iron used, when heated, to warm flip.
- transitive verb To toss (an object) into the air so as make it turn over one or more times; to fillip.
- transitive verb To turn (a flat object) over with a quick motion.
- transitive verb cant To cause (a person) to turn against former colleagues, such as to become a witness for the state, in a criminal prosecution in which the person is a defendant.
- transitive verb (Finance), cant To resell (an asset) rapidly to make a quick profit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective UK, informal Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
- adjective
sarcastic
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Okay, now this time when you say it, flip your hair and use your voice." "* hair flip** giggle*Like, keep up the speed B2B2!"
super-suzan Diary Entry super-suzan 2006
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I've never been a fan of the term "flip flop"...he re's why.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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A coin flip is not “more honest” than 50 votes, yes there is probably an error rate, but no one knows what it is.
Franken Holds Onto Lead in Minnesota - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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I think it's less about the average American caring about FISA, than it is about their hearing the term flip flop, to describe Obama's actions.
Poll: National Race Tightens; Majority Says Obama Flip-Flopped On Key Issues 2009
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Plus, I'm just sick of hearing the term flip-flop.
Obama Camp: McCain Flip-Flopped On Question Of Whether Specter Of Terrorism Helps Him Politically! 2009
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These attacks should point out the obvious: McCain deserves the label flip-flopper far more than Obama, as the Arizona Senator has changed his position many more times.
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The term flip-flop used in relation to Obama could be construed to be a negative code word for his upbringing in Indonesia, one of the lands of indiginous flip-flop wearing peoples.
Barack Obama has not flip-flopped or betrayed his lefty fans. You need to understand: He's a "visionary minimalist." Ann Althouse 2008
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ROBERTS: Well, the term flip-flop may apply to fish.
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These attacks should point out the obvious: McCain deserves the label flip-flopper far more than Obama, as the Arizona Senator has changed his position many more times.
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These attacks should point out the obvious: McCain deserves the label flip-flopper far more than Obama, as the Arizona Senator has changed his position many more times.
Framing the Election 2008
uselessness commented on the word flip
Something you don't give.
October 12, 2007
treeseed commented on the word flip
A 1960s female hairstyle that featured shoulder length, essentially straight, blunt cut hair that turned up dramatically and uniformly on the ends. Sometimes worn with a middle or side part and at other times combed back and held off the forehead with a hair band.
February 1, 2008
yarb commented on the word flip
I boarded her once at midnight somewhere off the Patagonian coast, and drank good flip down in the forecastle.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 101
July 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word flip
"There is a life-size picture of a dogcow conveniently located in the Finder. Look under 'Page Setup...' Now look under 'Options.' Like any talented dog, it can do flips. Like any talented cow, it can do precision bitmap alignment."
- from Apple Tech Note #31
November 7, 2008