flipper
English
editEtymology
editFrom flip + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Flappert (“flipper, wing”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈflɪpə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈflɪpɚ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Noun
editflipper (plural flippers)
- In marine mammals such as whales (or other aquatic animals such as sea turtles), a wide flat, limb adapted for swimming.
- A wide, flat, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.
- Synonym: swim fin
- A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.
- (theater) A small flat used to support a larger one.
- 1998, Martin Harrison, The Language of Theatre, page 104:
- The flipper is designed to give support by standing at a 90-degree angle to the flat. It probably gets its name from its appearance: cut out like a piece of profile scenery, it resembles the flipper of a marine animal, […]
- 2013, Jonathan Law, The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre:
- When standing alone, a flat may have a small extension, a FLIPPER, for added strength.
- (cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
- (informal, US) Television remote control, clicker.
- (dated, slang) The hand.
- 1888, Hélène E A. Gingold, Denyse, page 222:
- Give me your flipper, old man, and tell me if I can be of any service to you. I'll do what you want at all hazards.
- (dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
- 2005, Washington Appellate Reports: Volume 128:
- Dr. Woo attempts to distinguish Blakeslee by pointing out that “one can fondle a breast without having anything to do with dentistry, but one cannot take molds, fabricate and insert flippers into another person's mouth without practicing dentistry."
- A kitchen spatula.
- 2009, Amy J. Yowell, The Silent Cry, page 161:
- Remember the mornings when you help me fix eggs and pancakes for breakfast. You always had to use the “flipper” to turn the pancakes and eggs.
- Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit.
- Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin.
Derived terms
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editVerb
editflipper (third-person singular simple present flippers, present participle flippering, simple past and past participle flippered)
- To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.
Further reading
edit- “flipper”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “flipper”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “flipper”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “flipper”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English flipper.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editflipper m (plural flippers, diminutive flippertje n)
- A flipper, a fin (swimming gear).
- Synonym: zwemvlies
- A flipper (limb-like appendage of an aquatic animal).
- Synonym: vin
- A flipper, a flipper bumper (lever in a pinball machine for hitting the ball; also the input device for operating this lever).
- (rare) A pinball machine.
- Synonym: flipperkast
Derived terms
editFrench
editEtymology 1
editFrom English flipper, the part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball up higher on the game surface.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editflipper m (plural flippers)
- pinball
- pinball machine
- Synonym: (dated) billard électrique
Further reading
edit- flipper on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Etymology 2
editFrom English flip (one's lid).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editflipper
- (colloquial, slang) to freak out
Conjugation
editinfinitive | simple | flipper | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | flippant /fli.pɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | flippé /fli.pe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | flippe /flip/ |
flippes /flip/ |
flippe /flip/ |
flippons /fli.pɔ̃/ |
flippez /fli.pe/ |
flippent /flip/ |
imperfect | flippais /fli.pɛ/ |
flippais /fli.pɛ/ |
flippait /fli.pɛ/ |
flippions /fli.pjɔ̃/ |
flippiez /fli.pje/ |
flippaient /fli.pɛ/ | |
past historic2 | flippai /fli.pe/ |
flippas /fli.pa/ |
flippa /fli.pa/ |
flippâmes /fli.pam/ |
flippâtes /fli.pat/ |
flippèrent /fli.pɛʁ/ | |
future | flipperai /fli.pʁe/ |
flipperas /fli.pʁa/ |
flippera /fli.pʁa/ |
flipperons /fli.pʁɔ̃/ |
flipperez /fli.pʁe/ |
flipperont /fli.pʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | flipperais /fli.pʁɛ/ |
flipperais /fli.pʁɛ/ |
flipperait /fli.pʁɛ/ |
flipperions /fli.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
flipperiez /fli.pə.ʁje/ |
flipperaient /fli.pʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | flippe /flip/ |
flippes /flip/ |
flippe /flip/ |
flippions /fli.pjɔ̃/ |
flippiez /fli.pje/ |
flippent /flip/ |
imperfect2 | flippasse /fli.pas/ |
flippasses /fli.pas/ |
flippât /fli.pa/ |
flippassions /fli.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
flippassiez /fli.pa.sje/ |
flippassent /fli.pas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | flippe /flip/ |
— | flippons /fli.pɔ̃/ |
flippez /fli.pe/ |
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compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
edit- “flipper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “flipper” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
Italian
editNoun
editflipper m (invariable)
- pinball (game and machine)
Related terms
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French flipper, from English flipper.
Noun
editflipper n (plural flippere)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) flipper | flipperul | (niște) flippere | flipperele |
genitive/dative | (unui) flipper | flipperului | (unor) flippere | flipperelor |
vocative | flipperule | flipperelor |
Swedish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English flip. Affix of flip + -er, with a germinated p to indicate a short preceding vowel. First attested in 1963.[1]
Noun
editflipper n
- Clipping of flipperspel (“pinball”).
- 2022 December 4, Firas Razak, Jane Andersson, “16-årige Viggo yngste flippermästaren genom tiderna [16-year-old Viggo the youngest pinball champion of all time]”, in SVT Nyheter:
- Det är många som spelat flipper för att det är roligt, kanske tävlat mot kompisarna eller försökt slå personbästa. Men flipper är också en seriös tävlingssport med hundratusentals aktiva runt om i världen.
- Many people have played pinball because it's fun, perhaps competing against their friends or trying to beat their personal best. But pinball is also a serious competitive sport with hundreds of thousands of active players around the world.
References
edit- English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɪpə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɪpə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Theater
- English terms with quotations
- en:Cricket
- English informal terms
- American English
- English dated terms
- English slang
- en:Dentistry
- English verbs
- en:Animal body parts
- en:Footwear
- en:Pinball
- en:Swimwear
- en:Kitchenware
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɪpər
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɪpər/2 syllables
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Dutch terms with rare senses
- French terms derived from English
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French verbs
- French colloquialisms
- French slang
- French verbs with conjugation -er
- French first group verbs
- fr:Pinball
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms derived from English
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
- Swedish terms derived from English
- Swedish terms suffixed with -er
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- Swedish clippings
- Swedish terms with quotations
- sv:Games