Definitions for flips

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IPA: /flɪp/

Flips is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in flips (filps).

Definitions for flips

noun

1. an instance of flipping; a smart tap or strike.
2. a sudden jerk.
3. a somersault, especially one performed in the air:
4. Cards. a variety of seven-card stud in which each player receives the first four cards facedown and selects two of them to expose before receiving the next card.
5. Slang. flip side.
6. a mixed drink made with liquor or wine, sugar, and egg, topped with powdered nutmeg and served hot or cold.
7. a drink, popular especially in the 18th century, made with beer or ale mixed with rum or other liquor, sweetened and served hot.

Idioms

1. flip one's lid / wig, Slang. lid (def 8).

adjective

1. flippant; pert.

verb (used with object)

1. to toss or put in motion with a sudden impulse, as with a snap of a finger and thumb, especially so as to cause to turn over in the air:
2. to move (something) suddenly or jerkily.
3. to turn over, especially with a short rapid gesture:
4. Slang. to make (someone) insane, irrational, angry, or highly excited (usually followed by out).
5. Finance. to resell, especially quickly, or to refinance, as a mortgage loan.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a flicking movement; strike at something smartly or sharply; snap.
2. to move oneself with or as if with flippers:
3. to move with a jerk or jerks.
4. to turn over or perform a somersault in the air.
5. Slang. to react to something in an excited, astonished, or delighted manner: to become insane, irrational, angry, or highly excited (often followed by out).

Origin of flips

1585-95; 1955-60 for def 10; see fillip

Examples for flips

So 2018 will shape up as another wipeout, and the Senate will flip back to the GOP again.

The answer is that you flip state legislatures, since in most places, state legislatures draw the congressional district lines.

Now I'm going to flip you out, yes, out, into a strange region.

And I noticed also that she either doesn't know it, or doesn't give a flip.

To make a quart of flip, put the ale on the fire to warm, and beat up three or four eggs, with four ounces of moist sugar.

In a neat line, his agent, beginning a bidding war, promised: “Michiko Kakutani will flip for this.”

Given a hot room they might flip right over and go off with a bang.

Were you playing up or, on the flip side, shying away from portraying a romantic attraction?

By reaching out with my pole I could just flip the hopper into the water.

So whatever college campuses are doing, they need to flip that script.