flipper

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• A small flat used to support a larger one.
• A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
• Television remote control, clicker.
• The hand.
• A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
• A kitchen spatula.
• 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.

Verb

• To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.

Origin

• From flip + -er.