flip dog

English

flip dog (yoga pose)

Noun

flip dog (plural flip dogs)

1. (archaic) A heated iron used to warm flip (the drink).

   Synonym: loggerhead

   • 1865, Charles Ames Washburn, Gomery of Montgomery: a Family History, page 198:

     Away went Philemon, having first thrust the heavy end of the flip-dog into the bed of coals glowing under the forestick.

   • 1902, Edward Field, The political development of the towns, page 574:

     One of the most popular is said to have been of "home brewed beer", sweetened with sugar, molasses, or dried pumpkin, and flavored with a liberal dash of rum, then stirred in a great mug or pitcher with a red hot hottle or flip dog, which made the liquor foam and gave it a burnt, bitter taste.

   • 1908, Edward Randolph Emerson, Beverages, past and present, page 272:

     A flip dog is not much on the bark, for it is only a bar of iron shaped somewhat like a poker, and when it was in use had to be heated red-hot and then plunged into the glass containing the flip, which by the way was made, according to the taste of the drinker, either from ale, cider, or wine, and highly spiced; sometime an egg was stirred in it to give it a little more body.

   • 1937, Stanley Clisby Arthur, Famous New Orleans Drinks and how to Mix 'em, page 79:

     The flips of today have gone cold, and the flip-dog remains chilled and neglected by the fireplace, its solitary use now to poke the burning logs.

   • 2015, Elyse Moore, “Flip Dog in the Shad House: Commercial Fisheries Markets and Tavern Culture at Hadley Falls 1730-1880”, in Mark McWilliams, editor, Food & Markets: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2014, page 275:

     The hot and heady New England tavern concoction called flip was slightly sweet, rum, ale and spice beverage heated to a caramelized froth with the wrought iron flip dog.

2. (yoga) A backbend in which the body is supported by one arm and one leg, usually entered from either a side plank pose or from downward-facing dog.

   Synonym: wild thing

   • 2016, Nicole Tsong, Yoga for Climbers: How to Stretch, Strengthen and Climb Higher:

     A fun backbend, Flip Dog opens your chest and strengthens your shoulder girdle, working the opposite direction of how you use your shoulders while climbing.

   • 2015, Jennifer DeCurtins, The Complete Guide to Yoga Inversions, page 19:

     Keep your hips lifted as much as possible during the transition from three point to flip dog.

   • 2020, Dianne Bondy, Kat Heagberg Rebar, Yoga Where You Are, page 151:

     Before we explore the common "flip dog" entrance, let's look at coming into wild thing from side plank, an entrance that is often more accessible and less taxing on the shoulders.

References

• “flip”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.