flipper vs gyp

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. 

gyp

noun
  • A small kitchen for use by college students. 

  • Pain or discomfort. 

  • The room in which such college servants work. 

  • A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend upon (usually several) students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks; generally equivalent to a scout in the historical sense at Oxford University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin. 

  • Coordinate terms: porter, bedder 

  • A cheat or swindle; a rip-off. 

  • Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”) 

  • Gypsophila. 

verb
  • To cheat or swindle. 

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