beater vs flipper

beater

noun
  • A kitchen implement for mixing. 

  • An old or dilapidated automobile in poor operating condition. 

  • A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength 

  • A person who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, typically working in a group with other beaters. 

  • In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player who attempts to hit the opposing team's players with bludgers and to block the bludgers from hitting their own team's players. 

  • Someone or something that beats. 

  • A shoe suitable for everyday wear, during which they may get dirty or scuffed, as opposed to more valuable shoes that one wishes to keep in good condition. 

  • A stick used to play a percussion instrument. 

  • A weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place. It contains the comb-like insert reed and is sometimes a part of the loom. 

  • A harp seal pup after its first moult and before its second moult. 

  • A sleeveless undershirt. 

flipper

noun
  • A kitchen spatula. 

  • Television remote control, clicker. 

  • A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce. 

  • A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. 

  • A kind of false tooth, usually temporary. 

  • A small flat used to support a larger one. 

  • Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit. 

  • Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin. 

  • In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. 

  • A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. 

verb
  • To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water. 

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