Flipper

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  • noun. One that flips.
  • noun. A wide flat limb, as of a seal, whale, or other aquatic mammal, adapted for swimming.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A flat lever in a pinball machine, used to hit the ball so it stays in play.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In a sawmill, a steam-operated device for flipping, upsetting, or throwing over a log, cant, or piece of timber from a set of live rolls to other rolls, or for throwing a log out of the log-slide to the log-deck preparatory to rolling it down the sloping deck to the log-loader.
  • noun. A limb used to swim with.
  • noun. The hand: as, give us your flipper.
  • noun. Part of a scene, hinged and painted on both sides, used in trick changes.
  • noun. A flapjack; a kind of griddle-cake.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
  • noun. The hand.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. in marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming
  • noun. a flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming
  • noun. a flat lever in a pinball machine, used to keep the ball in play
  • noun. A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce
  • noun. television remote control, clicker
  • noun. The hand.
  • noun. A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
  • verb. To lift one or both flipper out of the water and slap the surface of the water
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
  • noun. the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming
  • Word Usage
    "A few days after my upper left first bicuspid was yanked, my dentist gave me what he calls a flipper, a dead ringer for a real tooth, aged to match the rest of my flawed set."
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    limb  shoe  
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    Dipper  chipper  clipper  dipper  hipper  
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    axletree  fin  hooves  snorkel  spiracle  
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