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flip

[ UK /flˈɪp/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫɪp/ ]
VERB
  1. look through a book or other written material
    She leafed through the volume
    He thumbed through the report
  2. react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way
    he flipped when he heard that he was accepted into Princeton University
  3. cause to move with a flick
    he flicked his Bic
  4. turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
    turn over the pancakes
    flip over the pork chop
  5. toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air
  6. go mad, go crazy
    He flipped when he heard that he was being laid off
  7. throw or toss with a light motion
    flip me the beachball
    toss me newspaper
  8. cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
    throw the lever
    switch on the light
    switch on the light
  9. move with a flick or light motion
  10. lightly throw to see which side comes up
    I don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!
  11. reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
NOUN
  1. (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
    the pass was fumbled
  2. hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg
  3. a sudden, quick movement
    the fish flipped over
    with a flip of the wrist
  4. an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
  5. the act of flipping a coin
  6. a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water
ADJECTIVE
  1. marked by casual disrespect
    a flip answer to serious question
    the student was kept in for impudent behavior
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How To Use flip In A Sentence

  • * A few of the women flipped through photos of Manou's bastide, * observing its before and after transformation. French Word-A-Day:
  • Making a flip book involves using the corner of a sketch pad to illustrate individual still frames of cartoon movement.
  • About 7 o'clock tonight, we had a whopping great thunderstorm with accompanying light show, and the flipping garage got flooded again!
  • Products such as ottomans and bathmats made from recycled flip-flops are "whimsical and interesting, but it's not doing things at the deepest level. Designer Trash
  • Dian Agung Nugroho's photo "F*** You (What's on her mind?)" captures a Chinese Indonesian schoolgirl flipping off an old Chinese Indonesian beggar lady. Boing Boing
  • Thedrain saturation current is increased 10% after bonding. To disperse heat of GaNHEMT, this flip chip bonding method seems to be simple and effective.
  • Math books, unlike any you have ever seen before, flip open.
  • He just moves on, as if we were unworthy of his attention, like the remoras which hitch a free ride on his flanks, and which he brushes off if they carelessly move within reach of his flippers.
  • I had a quick flip through my cookery books and found a recipe that sounded quite nice.
  • It was important that they were allowed to slug it out over the so-called flip-flop on that legislation.
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