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Flipper

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A wide flat limb, as of a seal, whale, or other aquatic mammal, adapted for swimming.

n. A rubber covering for the foot having a flat flexible portion that widens as it extends forward from the toes, used in swimming and diving. Also called fin1.

n. A flat lever in a pinball machine, used to hit the ball so it stays in play.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. in marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming

n. a flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming

n. a flat lever in a pinball machine, used to keep the ball in play

n. A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce

n. television remote control, clicker

n. The hand.

n. A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.

v. To lift one or both flipper out of the water and slap the surface of the water

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.

n. The hand.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A limb used to swim with.

n. The hand: as, give us your flipper.

n. Part of a scene, hinged and painted on both sides, used in trick changes.

n. A flapjack; a kind of griddle-cake.

n. 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.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)

n. 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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

shoe limb

Cross Reference

square-flipper

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

limb pinna flapper wing

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Dipper chipper clipper dipper hipper

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

fin axletree underbody spiracle hooves