flipped
SayFLIPT/flɪpt/
- 1Simple past and past participle of flip.
The challenger flipped a county that her party had lost four years earlier.
Investigators had flipped two members of the ring before they made a single arrest.
Note
The p doubles before -ed, and one spelling serves as both past tense and past participle: she flipped a coin, the boat was flipped. American politics and law add a trick of transitivity: a suspect who flipped agreed to testify, while prosecutors who flipped him got him to. Out of context, he flipped can also be slang for going berserk with anger, so the surrounding story matters.
flipped is a form of flip
flip, verb: To throw or toss something so that it turns over. Full entry
- Spelling
- flip → flipped: double the p, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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