flipping

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The practice of 'flipping' - also practised by the Chancellor - is also a luxury not open to the rest of us under tax rules.

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  1. transitive verb To throw or toss with a light brisk motion: flipped me the ball; flipped his hair out of his eyes.
  2. transitive verb To toss in the air, imparting a spin: flip a coin.
  3. transitive verb To turn over or around, especially with a light quick motion: flip over a card; flipped the tape to play the other side.
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  • Coin-flipping, I Ching consultation, closing your eyes and jumping, postponing the inevitable, Rock-Paper-Scissors, and asking your sister are all time-honored means of coming to a decision -- and yet we think there's room for one more: Hunch.
  • I'd been flipping, as usual, through the thirty-two thumbnails of empty, peaceful desert arrayed across the bottom of my wall screen. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#216
  • Quick flipping has been the best approach to this market for quite a while, but if you have taken that approach the last few days, you found yourself on the sidelines as some groups such as bulk shipping, infrastructure, steel and oil kept running straight up. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • Domain flipping is a procedure of converting the monetary value of an expired domain by transforming the face of the domain. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Nevertheless I became quite acquainted with terms like candy flipping, hippie flipping, and how some people drink bottles of cough syrup to get high. —  HijabMan - journal
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