flipper
See also: Flipper
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪpə(r)
Noun
flipper (plural flippers)
- In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming.
- A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.
- A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.
- (cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
- (informal, US) Television remote control, clicker.
- (dated, slang) The hand.
- (dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
- 2005, Washington Appellate Reports: Volume 128
- Dr. Woo attempts to distinguish Blakeslee by pointing out that “one can fondle a breast without having anything to do with dentistry, but one cannot take molds, fabricate and insert flippers into another person's mouth without practicing dentistry."
- 2005, Washington Appellate Reports: Volume 128
- A kitchen spatula.
- 2009, Amy J. Yowell, The Silent Cry (page 161)
- Remember the mornings when you help me fix eggs and pancakes for breakfast. You always had to use the “flipper” to turn the pancakes and eggs.
- 2009, Amy J. Yowell, The Silent Cry (page 161)
- Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit.
- Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin.
Translations
marine mammal's wide limb for swimming
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paddle-like rubber covering for the foot
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flat lever in a pinball machine
cricket: type of ball
informal: remote control
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slang: hand
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dentistry: temporary tooth
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kitchen spatula — see spatula
someone who buys and sells quickly for profit
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someone who flips
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See also
Verb
flipper (third-person singular simple present flippers, present participle flippering, simple past and past participle flippered)
- To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English flipper.
Pronunciation
Noun
flipper m (plural flippers, diminutive flippertje n)
- A flipper, a fin (swimming gear).
- Synonym: zwemvlies
- A flipper (limb-like appendage of an aquatic animal).
- Synonym: vin
- A flipper, a flipper bumper (lever in a pinball machine for hitting the ball; also the input device for operating this lever).
- (rare) A pinball machine.
- Synonym: flipperkast
Derived terms
French
Etymology 1
From English flipper, the part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball up higher on the game surface.
Pronunciation
Noun
flipper m (plural flippers)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
flipper
- (colloquial, slang) to freak out
Conjugation
Conjugation of flipper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | flipper | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | flippant /fli.pɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | flippé /fli.pe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | flippe /flip/ |
flippes /flip/ |
flippe /flip/ |
flippons /fli.pɔ̃/ |
flippez /fli.pe/ |
flippent /flip/ |
imperfect | flippais /fli.pɛ/ |
flippais /fli.pɛ/ |
flippait /fli.pɛ/ |
flippions /fli.pjɔ̃/ |
flippiez /fli.pje/ |
flippaient /fli.pɛ/ | |
past historic2 | flippai /fli.pe/ |
flippas /fli.pa/ |
flippa /fli.pa/ |
flippâmes /fli.pam/ |
flippâtes /fli.pat/ |
flippèrent /fli.pɛʁ/ | |
future | flipperai /fli.pʁe/ |
flipperas /fli.pʁa/ |
flippera /fli.pʁa/ |
flipperons /fli.pʁɔ̃/ |
flipperez /fli.pʁe/ |
flipperont /fli.pʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | flipperais /fli.pʁɛ/ |
flipperais /fli.pʁɛ/ |
flipperait /fli.pʁɛ/ |
flipperions /fli.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
flipperiez /fli.pə.ʁje/ |
flipperaient /fli.pʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | flippe /flip/ |
flippes /flip/ |
flippe /flip/ |
flippions /fli.pjɔ̃/ |
flippiez /fli.pje/ |
flippent /flip/ |
imperfect2 | flippasse /fli.pas/ |
flippasses /fli.pas/ |
flippât /fli.pa/ |
flippassions /fli.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
flippassiez /fli.pa.sje/ |
flippassent /fli.pas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | flippe /flip/ |
— | flippons /fli.pɔ̃/ |
flippez /fli.pe/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “flipper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
flipper m (uncountable)
- pinball (game and machine)
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