Dictionary Definition
flip adj : marked by casual disrespect; "a flip
answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent
behavior" [syn: impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed]
Noun
1 an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over
the head (either forward or backward) and return [syn: somersault, somersaulting]
2 hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a
beaten egg
3 the act of flipping a coin [syn: toss]
4 a dive in which the diver somersaults before
entering the water
5 (sports) the act of throwing the ball to
another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled" [syn: pass, toss]
Verb
1 lightly throw to see which side comes up; "I
don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!" [syn: toss]
2 cause to go on or to be engaged or set in
operation; "switch on the light"; "throw the lever" [syn: throw, switch]
3 look through a book or other written material;
"He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
[syn: flick, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff]
4 toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to
turn over in the air [syn: twitch]
5 cause to move with a flick; "he flicked his
Bic" [syn: flick]
6 throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the
beachball"; "toss me newspaper" [syn: toss, sky, pitch]
7 move with a flick or light motion
8 turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse;
"flip over the pork chop"; "turn over the pancakes" [syn: flip over,
turn
over]
9 go mad, go crazy; "He flipped when he heard
that he was being laid off" [syn: flip out]
10 reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of
action) [syn: interchange, tack, switch, alternate, flip-flop] [also:
flipping, flipped]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Flip
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪp
Noun
- A maneuver consisting of an object rotating end over end.
Verb
- To throw as to turn
over.
- You need to flip the pancake onto the other side
- To put into a quick revolving motion by a snap of thumb and index
finger.
- If you can't decide which one of two options to choose, flip a coin.
- In the context of "intransitive|slang": To go crazy.
- I'd flip if anyone broke my phone.
Adjective
en-adj flipA clipped form of flippant: Having the quality of
playfulness or lack of seriousness of purpose.
- I hate to be flip, but perhaps we could steal a Christmas tree.
- defn English
Translations
To throw as to turn over
- Finnish: heittää ilmaan
- German: umdrehen, wenden
- Romanian: a întoarce, a răsturna
To put into a quick revolving motion by a snap
of thumb and index finger
- German: werfen
To go crazy
- Finnish: pimahtaa, seota
- German: ausflippen
French
Noun
flipExtensive Definition
Flip may refer to:
- A gymnastics flip
- Flip, to enhance, enbetter (flip that house, flip that feeling)
- Flip (photography) is to turn over a negative or image, so that the chirality of the image is reversed.
- Flip (algebraic geometry), a birational modification in codimension 2 of an algebraic variety
- Flip (cocktail), a class of mixed drink, including eggnog
- Flip
(hairstyle), a form of hairstyle that was popular in
the 1960s
- The Dido flip
- Flip (slang), a slang word that refers to Filipino people
- Flip (informer), the process of creating a double agent, informer, or Tout
- Flip (Little Nemo), a character from the comic strip and cartoon Little Nemo
- Flip, a character from the computer-animated series, Pet Alien
- Give someone the finger, or to flip someone off or to flip the bird, a rude gesture
- a minced oath for the word "fuck"
- a type of Glissando wherein at the end of a note the pitch rises and then falls off
- a move in person-to-person combat
- Lil' Flip, an American rapper
- Flip Records (1950s), a record label
- Flip Records (1994), a record label
- Flip Skateboards, a skateboard company
- Flip Video, a digital video camera
- Flip tricks, a type of skateboarding trick
The acronym FLIP can refer to:
- FLIP (Fast-Local-Internet-Protocol)
- Fluid-Implicit-Particle, an algorithm used in physics to compute the trajectories of particles moving through a field
- Fluorescence loss in photobleaching
- R/P FLIP, a research vessel designed to be up-ended at sea
See also
flip in German: Flip
flip in French: Flip
flip in Polish: Flip
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
about-face, afterthoughts, all jaw,
anger, be angry, be
excitable, beak, beat, bellow, better thoughts, bicker, biggety, blow a gasket, blow up,
bluff, bob, bowl, brash, brush, bunt, candid, cast, catapult, catch fire, catch the
infection, change of mind, change of pace, change-up, chatty, cheeky, chuck, chunk, chutzpadik, cocky, come apart, come unstuck,
communicative,
contemptuous,
conversational,
crack, crack up, crusty, curve, dab, dance, dart, dash, derisive, disrespectful, downcurve, effusive, excite easily,
expansive, explode, facy, fastball, fillip, fire, fire up, flame up, flap, flare up, flash up, flick, flicker, fling, flip out, flip-flop,
flippant, flirt, flit, flitter, flop, flounce, fluent, flutter, fork, forward pass, frank, freak, freak out, fresh, gabby, gally, garrulous, gassy, get excited, glib, go berserk, go crazy, go
haywire, go into hysterics, go mad, go pitapat, go to pieces,
gossipy, gratuitous, graze, gregarious, gushy, gutter, have a tantrum, heave, hit the ceiling, hitch, hurl, hurtle, impertinent, impudent, incurve, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, knuckleball, lance, lateral, lateral pass, launch, let fly, lob, long-winded, loquacious, lose courage,
lose self-control, malapert, mature judgment,
multiloquent,
multiloquious,
nervy, newsy, outcurve, overtalkative, palpitate, pass, pat, peck, peg, pelt, pert, pick, pitch, pitchfork, pitter-patter,
pluck, prolix, pulse, put, put the shot, rage, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rap, rave, reversal, reverse, right-about,
right-about-face, rude, run
a temperature, sassy,
saucy, screwball, second thoughts,
seethe, serve, service, shot-put, shy, sinker, slat, slider, sling, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass,
smolder, smooth, snake, snap, snatch, sociable, spin, spitball, spitter, splutter, sputter, start, storm, sudden pull, take fire,
talkative, talky, tap, tergiversating, tergiversation, throb, throw, tickle, tilt, tip, toss, touch, turn, turn a hair, turnabout, turnaround, tweak, twist, twitch, uncalled-for, upcurve, verbose, volte-face, voluble, wave, waver, whisk, windy, wise-ass, wrench, yank, yerk