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noun

Flip n. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.

Flip dog, an iron used, when heated, to warm flip.

verb

Flip v. t. (past & past part. flipped; pres. part. flipping)

To toss (an object) into the air so as make it turn over one or more times; to fillip; as, to flip up a cent. "As when your little ones Do 'twixt their fingers flip their cherry stones."

To turn (a flat object) over with a quick motion; as, to flip a card over; to flip a pancake.

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. (cant)

(Finance) To resell (an asset) rapidly to make a quick profit. (cant)

Flip v. i. (past & past part. flipped; pres. part. flipping) To become insane or irrational; often used with out; as, seeing her mother killed made the girl flip out.

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Etymology of 'Flip'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flip" Quotes from Famous Books

... having checked his rapid, head-first and head-on slide down the slanting wire by grasping it in his gloved hands, gave a "flip-flop" and stood up, bowing to the loud applause. Jim Tracy and some of the other circus employees surrounded the ...

— Joe Strong The Boy Fire-Eater - The Most Dangerous Performance on Record • Vance Barnum

... it into Long Eliza to give his hat a flip by the brim. It dropped over his nose and rolled away in the grass. "Oh, what a dear little bald head!" cried Long Eliza; "I declare I must kiss it or die!" She caught up a handful of hay as he stooped, and—well, well, Sir! Scandalous, ...

— News from the Duchy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... world was blotted from view by the tunnel it frightened her at first with its long, dark noise and the flip-flops of light. Then a brief glimpse of towers and walls. Then the dark station. ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... of the chief parishes in London was entertained at dinner by a prominent member of the congregation. Conversation turned on the use of stimulants as an aid to intellectual and physical effort, and Mr. Gladstone's historic egg-flip was cited. "Well, for my own part," said the divine, "I am quite independent of that kind of help. The only occasion in my life when I used anything of the sort was when I was in for my tripos at Cambridge, and then, by the doctor's order, I took a strong dose of strychnine, in order to ...

— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell

... this juncture things goes queer. To my wonder I don't turn no flip-flap, but performs like a draw-shot in billiards. I plants my moccasins on the springboard; an' then instead of goin' on an' over a cayouse who's standin' thar awaitin' sech events, I shoots back'ard ...

— Wolfville Nights • Alfred Lewis

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