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flippancy | flippant | flippantly | flippantness | flipped | flipper | flipper-like | flippers | flirt | flirt with | flirt-gill

flipper

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Noun
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flip=per

CIDE DICTIONARY

flippern. [Cf. Flip, Flippant.].
  •  A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The hand.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flipper, n.
1 a broadened limb of a turtle, penguin, etc., used in swimming.
2 a flat rubber etc. attachment worn on the foot for underwater swimming.
3 sl. a hand.

THESAURUS

flipper

Australian crawl, act drop, aquaplaning, aquatics, asbestos, asbestos board, backdrop, backstroke, balneation, bathe, bathing, batten, border, breaststroke, butterfly, cloth, coulisse, counterweight, crawl, curtain, curtain board, cyclorama, decor, diving, dog paddle, drop, drop curtain, fin, fire curtain, fishtail, flapper, flat, floating, hanging, natation, rag, scene, scenery, screen, side scene, sidestroke, stage screw, surfboarding, surfing, swim, swimming, tab, tableau, teaser, tormentor, transformation, transformation scene, treading water, wading, waterskiing, wing, wingcut, woodcut

ROGET THESAURUS

flipper

Navigation

N navigation, aquatics, boating, yachting, ship, oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron, natation, swimming, fin, flipper, fish's tail, aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics, balloonery, balloon, ballooning, aviation, airmanship, flying, flight, volitation, wing, pinion, rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting, voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus, headway, sternway, leeway, fairway, mariner, flight, trip, shuttle, run, airlift, sailing, volant, aerostatic, seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval, seagoing, coasting, afloat, navigable, aerial, aeronautic, grallatory, under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam, on the wing, in flight, in orbit, bon voyage, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.


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