flipping

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of flip. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action.

   Dad is flipping pancakes in the kitchen.

   Flipping a coin is a fair way to decide who goes first.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   Buying something, making it better, and then selling it again for more money.

   My uncle made a lot of money from house flipping.

   Furniture flipping turned her weekend hobby into a small business.

3. 3
   adjective

   A milder word used instead of a very rude swearword, to make what you say stronger.

   I can't find my flipping keys again!

   This flipping printer never works when I need it.

   Similarfreaking, frigging, fricking

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4. 4
   adverbeuphemisticBritish

   A softer word for a rude swearword, used to add force to an action or a describing word.

   It's flipping freezing out here!

   I've flipping lost my phone again.

   Similarfreaking, frigging, fricking

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5. 5
   noununcountable

   The act of turning something over, or of it being turned over.

   After a lot of flipping, the pancake was brown on both sides.

   The game ends with the flipping of the last card.

   Similarturning, tossing

6. 6
   nounslanguncountable

   Using a drug that causes strange visions together with a drug that makes people feel warm and close.

   The nurse explained that flipping can make the effects of both drugs much stronger.

   The nurse asked whether there had been any flipping at the party.

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