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How to pronounce “flip”
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Pronunciation guide for flip
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of flip with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
person flipping the coin every year for
- Definition summary
- A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce flip
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

person flipping the coin every year for
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “flip”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
- A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
- (archaic) A fillip or light blow.
- (dated) A whit or jot; the tiniest amount.
- (US, slang) A slingshot.
- A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960s–70s and 2000s–10s, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out
- (informal) The purchase of an asset (usually a house) which is then improved and sold quickly for profit.
- (firearms, uncountable) The tendency of a gun's barrel to jerk about at the moment of firing.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To throw so as to turn over.
- (transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
- (transitive, US politics) To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.
- (intransitive, US) To turn state's evidence; to agree to testify against one's co-conspirators in exchange for concessions from prosecutors.
- (transitive, US) To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.
- (intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy; to get extremely angry.
- (intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy; to be extremely thrilled or enthusiastic.
- (transitive, finance, slang) To purchase and resell assets (often real estate or artworks) for immediate short-term profit.
- (transitive, finance, slang) To refinance (a loan), accruing additional fees.
- (transitive, computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
- (transitive, informal) To hand over or pass along.
- (intransitive, informal) To switch to another task, etc.
- (intransitive) To flap.
- [Interjection]
- (UK, euphemistic, colloquial) Used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.
- [Adjective]
- (UK, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
- Sarcastic.
- (informal) Disrespectful, flippant.
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