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English
Pronunciation
Verb
flipping
- present participle and gerund of flip
Adjective
flipping (not comparable)
- A mild intensifier; a minced oath of "fucking".
- Synonyms: flogging, freaking, fricking, frigging
- Where's my flipping watch?
- Darn it! That flipping racoon got into the trash again!
- 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 19:
- "Sister?" I inquired. "She ain't 'ere," a man's voice said. "What's more," it went on, "she ain't been 'ere for ruddy hours, neither. Can't you pull them ruddy curtains, mate, and let's 'ave some flippin' light? Don't know what's come over the bloody place this morning."
Derived terms
Adverb
flipping (not comparable)
- (euphemistic, British) fucking; used as an intensifier to modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs
- Do you flipping think I'm stupid?
- Can't you see I'm trying to flipping fix something?
Usage notes
- This is also used in American English, but it's not as common as other intensifiers like freaking or frigging.
Noun
flipping (countable and uncountable, plural flippings)
- The process of something being flipped or turned over.
- coin flippings
- The practice of buying something, making improvements to it, and reselling it for a higher price.
- (slang) Tripping on psychedelics while rolling on empathogens or entactogens.
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