flipping
- (used as an intensifier): I'm flipping tired of your excuses.
Origin of flipping
flip
1- to toss or put in motion with a sudden impulse, as with a snap of a finger and thumb, especially so as to cause to turn over in the air: to flip a coin.
- to move (something) suddenly or jerkily.
- to turn over, especially with a short rapid gesture: to flip pancakes with a spatula.
- Slang. to make (someone) insane, irrational, angry, or highly excited (usually followed by out).
- Finance. to resell, especially quickly, or to refinance, as a mortgage loan.
- to make a flicking movement; strike at something smartly or sharply; snap.
- to move oneself with or as if with flippers: The seals flipped along the beach.
- to move with a jerk or jerks.
- to turn over or perform a somersault in the air.
- Slang.
- to react to something in an excited, astonished, or delighted manner: He really flipped over his new girlfriend.
- to become insane, irrational, angry, or highly excited (often followed by out).
- an instance of flipping; a smart tap or strike.
- a sudden jerk.
- a somersault, especially one performed in the air: a back flip off the diving board.
- Cards. a variety of seven-card stud in which each player receives the first four cards facedown and selects two of them to expose before receiving the next card.
- Slang. flip side.
- flip one's lid/wig, Slang. lid(def 8).
Origin of flip
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Contemporary Examples of flipping
Yet, after flipping through Not That Kind of Girl, I do begin to understand what “this Lena Dunham flap” is about.
Think a GOP Senate would let her replace him, flipping the court from a conservative majority to a liberal one?
Assad, the Syrians who hate him, and Iraqi Sunni tribesmen are all flipping and flopping.
"This is not about flipping hamburgers," says William J. Hoch, who started working here as a child in 1954 and now owns the place.
Flipping through the channels, one thing becomes shockingly clear—women like Vanessa are hardly seen, or heard, at all.
Historical Examples of flipping
Flipping a man in the face with a glove was fashionable in the days of Charles II.
The Paliser caseEdgar Saltus
"We have a powerhouse here," he said, flipping the paper across the table.
The K-FactorHarry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)
And, flipping the ash off his cigarette on to the tray by Fiorsen's elbow, he nodded and went.
BeyondJohn Galsworthy
She held the telegram, flipping her fingers against one end of it as she debated.
Free AirSinclair Lewis
He turns the pages of one, of the others, flipping the pages, searching for meaning.
Planet of the DamnedHarry Harrison
flipping
- British slang (intensifier)a flipping idiot; it's flipping cold
Word Origin for flipping
flip
- to throw (something light or small) carelessly or briskly; tosshe flipped me an envelope
- to throw or flick (an object such as a coin) so that it turns or spins in the air
- to propel by a sudden movement of the finger; flickto flip a crumb across the room
- (foll by through) to read or look at (a book, newspaper, etc) quickly, idly, or incompletely
- (intr) (of small objects) to move or bounce jerkily
- (intr) to make a snapping movement or noise with the finger and thumb
- (intr) slang to fly into a rage or an emotional outburst (also in the phrases flip one's lid, flip one's top, flip out)
- (intr) slang to become ecstatic or very excitedhe flipped over the jazz group
- a snap or tap, usually with the fingers
- a rapid jerk
- a somersault, esp one performed in the air, as in a dive, rather than from a standing position
- same as nog 1 (def. 1)
- informal impertinent, flippant, or pert
Word Origin for flip
Word Origin and History for flipping
flip
1590s (1520s in flip-flop), imitative or else a contraction of fillip (q.v.), which also is held to be imitative. Sense of "get excited" is first recorded 1950; flip one's lid "lose one's head, go wild" is from 1950. For flip (adj.) "glib," see flippant. Meaning "to flip a coin" (to decide something) is by 1879. As a noun by 1690s. Related: Flipped. Flipping (adj.) as euphemism for fucking is British slang first recorded 1911 in D.H. Lawrence. Flip side (of a gramophone record) is by 1949.
flip
sailors' hot drink usually containing beer, brandy and sugar, 1690s, from flip (v.); so called from notion of it being "whipped up" or beaten.