Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A type of shoe with a paddle-like front extending well beyond the end of the toe, used an aid in swimming (especially underwater).
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- noun Plural form of
flipper .
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Examples
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Like, did penguin flippers evolve early and penguin coloration later, you know, as we found new fossils.
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We have enough cheap labor that the marginal value of more burger flippers is not worth the transformation of our society, the creation of another racially identifiable underclass, or the loss of the what degree of egalitarian we still have - which is valuable despite your blithe dismissal of it.
Cheers for a Two-Tier Society, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Like, did penguin flippers evolve early and penguin coloration later, you know, as we found new fossils.
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Like, did penguin flippers evolve early and penguin coloration later, you know, as we found new fossils.
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Like, did penguin flippers evolve early and penguin coloration later, you know, as we found new fossils.
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Of course, that's not fair to the coin flippers -- they're right half the time ....
The Recession is Over! (Now get off your lazy asses and spend some MONEY, dammit!) 2009
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This system of kicking sand in the face of grocery clerks and burger flippers is not going to last forever … science is automating everything.
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She had prepared something she called flippers, fried dough that accompanied my eggs.
Melody V.C. Andrews 1996
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She had prepared something she called flippers, fried dough that accompanied my eggs.
Melody V.C. Andrews 1996
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She had prepared something she called flippers, fried dough that accompanied my eggs.
Melody V.C. Andrews 1996
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The criticism surrounding the so-called gentrification of thrift stores has zeroed in on excessive shoppers: Depop resellers, like Vera, who mark up items found at their local Goodwill to turn a profit; thrift shop YouTubers who frequently buy more than they could reasonably wear; and thrift “flippers’’ who buy oversized garments to transform into smaller, fitted items.
The debate over Depop and the gentrification of thrift stores Terry Nguyen 2021
bilby commented on the word flippers
"I put on
the body-armor of black rubber
the absurd flippers
the grave and awkward mask.
I am having to do this
not like Cousteau with his
assiduous team
aboard the sun-flooded schooner
but here alone."
- 'Diving Into The Wreck', Adrienne Rich.
December 9, 2007