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flip

flɪp
WordNet
Robotic man with a flip to his head, open mouth and cylindrical arms.
Robotic man with a flip to his head, open mouth and cylindrical arms.
  1. (adj) flip
    marked by casual disrespect "a flip answer to serious question","the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
  2. (v) flip
    reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
  3. (v) flip
    go mad, go crazy "He flipped when he heard that he was being laid off"
  4. (v) flip
    react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way "he flipped when he heard that he was accepted into Princeton University"
  5. (v) flip
    turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse "flip over the pork chop","turn over the pancakes"
  6. (v) flip
    move with a flick or light motion
  7. (v) flip
    cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation "switch on the light","throw the lever"
  8. (v) flip
    throw or toss with a light motion "flip me the beachball","toss me newspaper"
  9. (v) flip
    lightly throw to see which side comes up "I don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!"
  10. (v) flip
    cause to move with a flick "he flicked his Bic"
  11. (v) flip
    toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air
  12. (v) flip
    look through a book or other written material "He thumbed through the report","She leafed through the volume"
  13. (n) flip
    (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team "the pass was fumbled"
  14. (n) flip
    an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
  15. (n) flip
    a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water
  16. (n) flip
    the act of flipping a coin
  17. (n) flip
    a sudden, quick movement "with a flip of the wrist","the fish flipped over"
  18. (n) flip
    hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg
Illustrations
Oboe of boxwood with thirteen silver keys (special 'flip' key for B). The third hole is double. The voice piece can be regulated. Marked on all parts: [Double-headed eagle] / S. KOCH / WIEN. In original case (covered with leather), with cardboard reed box, two reeds and a cap for the pin connection of the top part. The key to the suitcase is missing.
Oboe of boxwood with thirteen silver keys (special 'flip' key for B). The third hole is double. The voice piece can be regulated. Marked on all parts: [Double-headed eagle] / S. KOCH / WIEN. In original case (covered with leather), with cardboard reed box, two reeds and a cap for the pin connection of the top part. The key to the suitcase is missing.
Man at a table in an interior. He's flipping through a book.
Man at a table in an interior. He's flipping through a book.
The man is wearing a cloak, pleated collar and hat. He flips through a book on a desk with his left hand.
The man is wearing a cloak, pleated collar and hat. He flips through a book on a desk with his left hand.
A man in a bowler hat flips through a folder of prints. Prints hang on the wall.
A man in a bowler hat flips through a folder of prints. Prints hang on the wall.
The woman is wearing a hat, flip-flops and a short cloak over her dress. A wicker basket hangs from her left arm. Sheet 1 recto from a sketchbook with 8 sheets.
The woman is wearing a hat, flip-flops and a short cloak over her dress. A wicker basket hangs from her left arm. Sheet 1 recto from a sketchbook with 8 sheets.
Model: Shoe with a flip-up, pointed toe and half-high heels. Sheet of linen, lined with coarse linen. The tongue almost completely disappears under the two overlapping flaps, which were originally closed with a shoe buckle. Between the top and the sole there is a stitched edge of the same white goatskin that also covers the heel. Insole of white goatskin. Decoration: the leaf, tongue and flaps are embroidered with multicolored silk in petit point with a floral motif consisting of pomegranate (?), Rose, forget-me-not, tendrils with leaves, pink-red and blue flowers.
Model: Shoe with a flip-up, pointed toe and half-high heels. Sheet of linen, lined with coarse linen. The tongue almost completely disappears under the two overlapping flaps, which were originally closed with a shoe buckle. Between the top and the sole there is a stitched edge of the same white goatskin that also covers the heel. Insole of white goatskin. Decoration: the leaf, tongue and flaps are embroidered with multicolored silk in petit point with a floral motif consisting of pomegranate (?), Rose, forget-me-not, tendrils with leaves, pink-red and blue flowers.
A man in a hat and scarf flips through a folder of prints. Prints hang on the wall.
A man in a hat and scarf flips through a folder of prints. Prints hang on the wall.
Pope Leo X is sitting at a table and flipping through a Bible. He holds a magnifying glass in his hand to study the book. There is a bell on the table.
Pope Leo X is sitting at a table and flipping through a Bible. He holds a magnifying glass in his hand to study the book. There is a bell on the table.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
In South Carolina, an inmate who was paralyzed behind bars says in a lawsuit that Spartanburg County jail guards should have stopped him from doing back flips off a desk in his cell. Torrence Johnson, who is suing for unspecified damages, said recently that he fell and crushed a vertebra while being held in maximum-security in 1998.
  1. Flip
    flĭp A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
  2. Flip
    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.
  3. Flip
    (Finance) To resell (an asset) rapidly to make a quick profit.
  4. Flip
    To turn (a flat object) over with a quick motion; as, to flip a card over; to flip a pancake.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Most cell phone antennas have no purpose other than to make people believe that flipping up a 2 inch antenna just gave them better reception. They are not connected to any circuitry.
  1. flip
    To fillip; tap lightly; twitch.
  2. flip
    To flick, as with a whip.
  3. flip
    To toss with a snap of the thumb, or the like: as, to flip up a penny in playing “heads and tails.”
  4. flip
    To flap.
  5. (n) flip
    A fillip; a flick; a snap.
  6. flip
    Nimble; flippant.
  7. (n) flip
    A mixture of which ale, beer, or cider is the chief ingredient, sweetened, spiced, made sometimes with eggs (see egg-flip), and drunk hot. It is considered essential to heat the compound by means of hot irons plunged into the liquor, which gives a burnt taste. See flip-dog.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
  1. (n) Flip
    flip a hot drink of beer and spirits sweetened.
  2. (v.t) Flip
    flip to fillip, to touch lightly: to toss up with a motion of the thumb
  3. (v.i) Flip
    to flap
  4. (n) Flip
    a fillip, a snap
  5. (n) Flip
    a coster's dance: a form of somersault: a cracker
Quotations
Matt Groening
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening
Idioms

On the flip side - On the reverse or the other side

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. Prov. E. flip, nimble, flippant, also, a slight blow. Cf. Flippant

Usage in the news

Freedom Fighter Or Flip- Flopper . kcur.org

Blythe Danner calls Mitt Romney a "flip- flopper ". cbsnews.com

Biden Defends Obama's Debate, Casts Romney As Flip- Flopper . ibw.com

Romney Is Flip- Flopper . swtimes.com

Another Republican flip- flopper is running for president. islandpacket.com

The Mind of a Flip- Flopper . nytimes.com

Hardliner, Not Flip- Flopper . nyc.org

Mitt Romney has a flip-flop problem. ashingtonpost.com

Mitt Romney, Meta Flip- Flopper . tnr.com

Team Obama Blasts Romney as Flip- Flopper . foxnews.com

Obamas Flip Flops Fly In The Face Of Change. cbsnews.com

Jerome Simpson's Touchdown Flip Could Be the Greatest Football Play of 2011. klaw.com

When new quarterbacks coach Frank Scelfo arrived at Arizona less than two months ago, he flipped on the game tapes to see what he had inherited. tucsoncitizen.com

Peep-toes, flip-flops and strappy stilettos—almost every fun summertime shoe calls for pretty painted toes. americansalonmag.com

Romney's flip-flop on gas prices. ashingtonpost.com

Usage in scientific papers

Error Detection and Correction Once Alice and Bob have agreed on sifted bits, they must perform error correction to find and then eliminate those bits that have been damaged in transmission, i.e., the flipped bits sent as a 1 but received as a 0 or vice versa.
Current status of the DARPA Quantum Network

Derivation of the 1+1 dimensional Dirac equation for thermal processes As pointed in paper spin-flip occurs only when there is more than one dimension in space.
Thermal processes induced in carbon nanotubes by attosecond laser pulses

Kak, A new method for coin flipping by telephone.
Testing Kak's Conjecture on Binary Reciprocal of Primes and Cryptographic Applications

Model of multiple stuck-at-faults Chapter II. «Long flip-flop» Chapter III. «Widened long flip-flop» Chapter IV.
Easily testable logical networks based on a 'widened long flip-flop'

Proof of theorems relating to testing of «widened long flip-flop»: A1.
Easily testable logical networks based on a 'widened long flip-flop'

Usage in literature

It was the merest flip of a switch. "The Aliens" by Murray Leinster

Drinking-glasses or flip-mugs seem to have been most common, or, at any rate, most largely preserved. "Customs and Fashions in Old New England" by Alice Morse Earle

Stan flipped the pages of the book. "Alarm Clock" by Everett B. Cole

Barth flipped on the microresolver, twisting the wheel that sent it racing across the path of the fleet ahead. "Victory" by Lester del Rey

In a little while she could shift the ribbon or flip a sheet of paper in and out with the ease of an expert. "Mary Ware's Promised Land" by Annie Fellows Johnston

He licked his lips and flipped the telephone-talker switch. "The Native Soil" by Alan Edward Nourse

He opened it and a pair of sights flipped up. "The Green Beret" by Thomas Edward Purdom

He dropped into a chair with a sigh and flipped a switch. "PRoblem" by Alan Edward Nourse

I'm quite happy, Flip. "St. Winifred's" by Frederic W. Farrar

I suppose you had in mind sitting and flipping back a few trank pills. "Mercenary" by Dallas McCord Reynolds

Usage in poetry
To wear out walking, sleek and slow,
Upon a Summer day,
And there'd be one to see me so
And flip the world away.
"The Red Dress" by Dorothy Parker
The flip of cards on winter eves,
The whisky and the scoring,
As trees outside were stripped of leaves
And heavy seas were roaring.
"The Hon. Sec." by Sir John Betjeman Author object (617)
One I remember kept his coin,
And laughing flipped it in the air;
But when two strolling pipe-players
Came by, he tossed it to the pair.
"The Mendicants" by Bliss William Carman Author object (81)
" My eye, my eye!" says Capting Nye,
"I didn't expect that there,
That a full sized whale would stand on his tail
And turn nine flips in the air."
"What Ho! She Blows!" by Wallace Irwin
Then the whale piped high a leviathan cry
And he guggled in huge despair;
Then he splattered our sail and stud on his tail
And turned nine flips in the air.
"What Ho! She Blows!" by Wallace Irwin
Zoo all the lot o' stuff a-tied
Upon the plow, a tidy tod,
On gravel-crunchèn wheels did ride,
Wi' ho'ses, iron-shod,
That, as their heads did nod, my whip
Did guide along wi' lightsome flip.
"The Wheel Routs" by William Barnes Author object (690)