flipper vs hunch

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. 

hunch

verb
  • To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back. 

  • To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up). 

  • To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone). 

  • To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders. 

  • To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders. 

  • To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess. 

noun
  • A push or thrust, as with the elbow. 

  • A hump; a protuberance. 

  • A stooped or curled posture; a slouch. 

  • A hunk; a lump; a thick piece. 

  • A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen. 

How often have the words flipper and hunch occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )