flipper vs hump

flipper

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

noun
  • 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. 

  • A kitchen spatula. 

hump

verb
  • To bend something into a hump. 

  • To carry (something), especially with some exertion. 

  • To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard. 

  • To dry-hump. 

  • To have sex (with). 

noun
  • A mound of earth. 

  • An act of sexual intercourse. 

  • A bad mood. 

  • A speed bump or speed hump. 

  • A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds. 

  • A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu. 

  • A painfully boorish person. 

  • A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine. 

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