Usually means: Tool or limb for swimming.
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  2. flipper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flipper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. flipper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Flipper, flipper: Wiktionary
  9. flipper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flipper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. flipper: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flipper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flipper (anatomy), Flipper (band), Flipper (cricket), Flipper (graphics chip), Flipper (mascot), Flipper (mobile application), Flipper (robot combat), Flipper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flipper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flipper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  20. Flipper: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Flipper: Investopedia
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  3. Flipper (disambiguation), flipper: Financial dictionary

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  1. flipper: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

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  1. Flipper (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. flipper, flipper, flipper, flipper, flipper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Flipper, The Flipper: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Flipper: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  In marine mammals such as whales (or other aquatic animals such as sea turtles), a wide flat, limb adapted for swimming.
noun:  A wide, flat, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.
noun:  A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.
noun:  (theater) A small flat used to support a larger one.
noun:  (cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
noun:  (informal, US) Television remote control, clicker.
noun:  (dated, slang) The hand.
noun:  (dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
noun:  A kitchen spatula.
noun:  Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit.
noun:  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.
noun:  a common name for animals which have flippers, such as dolphins and seals.

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