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flipping

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flip  (flp)
v. flipped, flip·ping, flips
v.tr.
1. To throw or toss with a light brisk motion: flipped me the ball; flipped his hair out of his eyes.
2. To toss in the air, imparting a spin: flip a coin.
3.
a. To turn over or around, especially with a light quick motion: flip over a card; flipped the tape to play the other side.
b. To turn through; leaf: flipped the pages of the report.
4. To strike quickly or lightly; flick.
5. To move or act on with a quick motion: flip a switch; flipped open her briefcase.
v.intr.
1. To turn over: The canoe flipped over in the rapids.
2. To turn a somersault, especially in the air.
3. To move in twists and turns: fish flipping about in the net.
4. To move quickly and lightly; snap: The lid flipped open.
5. To leaf; browse: flipped through the catalogue.
6. Slang
a. To go crazy. Often used with out.
b. To react strongly and especially enthusiastically: She flipped over the new car.
n.
1. The act of flipping, especially:
a. A flick or tap.
b. A short, quick movement: a flip of the wrist.
c. A somersault.
2. Informal A reversal; a flipflop.
3. A mixed drink made with any of various alcoholic beverages and often including beaten eggs.
adj. flip·per, flip·pest Informal
Marked by casual disrespect; impertinent: a flip answer to a serious question.
Idiom:
flip (one's) lid Slang
1. To react strongly, as with anger or enthusiasm.
2. To go crazy.

[Perhaps imitative.]

flipping [ˈflɪpɪŋ]
adj & adv
Brit slang (intensifier) a flipping idiot it's flipping cold
[perhaps a euphemism for fucking]
Translations
flipping [ˈflɪpɪŋ] ADJ (Brit) → condenado
flipping [ˈflɪpɪŋ] (British)
adv
I can't flipping believe it! → Je ne peux vraiment pas y croire!
flipping horrible → vraiment horrible
adj (= blooming) → fichu(e) before n
flip side n
[record] → face f B
[situation] → envers m
flip-top bin npoubelle f à couvercle pivotant
flipping
adj, adv (Brit inf emph) → verdammt (inf)
flipping [ˈflɪpɪŋ] adj (fam) → maledetto/a
flipping [ˈflɪpɪŋ] adj (fam) → maledetto/a


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The other fox-terrier, the one with the injured foreleg, endured Michael's sniff with no more than hysterical growls deep in the throat; but the flipping out of Michael's tongue was too much.
He undergoes so much from such inquiries that when they are made by boys he revenges himself by flipping at their ears over the counter and asking the young dogs what they mean by it and why they can't speak out at once?
He panted up the terrace only to disappear to the head in a wave of monkeys, but he threw himself squarely on his haunches, and, spreading out his forepaws, hugged as many as he could hold, and then began to hit with a regular bat-bat-bat, like the flipping strokes of a paddle wheel.
 
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