Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of flip.
- adj. A mild intensifier.
- adv. euphemistic Fucking; used as an intensifier to modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs
- n. The practice of buying real estate, making improvements to it, and reselling it for a higher price.
Examples
“He sneered, his expression flipping from friendliness to anger like a coin.”
“But the flipping is a little clunky and so another time, I'd make individual cakes.”
“But neither of these guys has any interest in flipping houses.”
“Their switch-flipping is a conscious expression of defiance to the idea that we should reduce the emission of GHGs into the atmosphere, and save Bangladeshis by doing so.”
“If you are not eco-retro-fitting the house, flipping is just being a speculator.”
“If people truly loved random events deciding who wins or loses a contest, coin flipping would be the most popular sport in the world.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right:
“A.S.: If people truly loved random events deciding who wins or loses a contest, coin flipping would be the most popular sport in theworld.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right:
“However, unlike truly random selections, such as coin flipping or drawing straws, it can be played with skill if the game extends over many sessions, as a player can often recognize and exploit the non-random behavior of an opponent.”
“What is found in flipping through the pages are recipes for an array of red-cooked dishes, steamed minced meat dishes, quite possibly the first recipes for dim sum (transliterated as tien hsien) specialties published in English, and vegetable dishes that utilize both Chinese and traditional American vegetables.”
Tigers & Strawberries » The Chinese Cookbook Project III: With an Open Mind and an Open Mouth
“But in flipping around, I see that they get Comedy Central.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flipping’.
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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minced oaths
expostulations which originated as euphemisms for a stronger, socially unsanctioned, word or expression
strewth, zounds, land sakes, jiminy cricket, gorblimey, drat, begorrah, cripes, doggone it, gadzooks, odds bodkins, sacre bleu and 78 more...
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Weekly Words (Oct 5, 2008)
I am using Mechanical Turk to collect “words of the week†from 100 different people.
nauseous, bildungsroman, stabby, bored, faith, crisis, positive, hectic, friendly, dogs, easy, awesome and 75 more...
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