flipper vs lip

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. 

lip

verb
  • To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something. 

  • To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips. 

  • To form the rim, edge or margin of something. 

  • To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth. 

  • (of something inanimate) To touch lightly. 

  • To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something). 

  • To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in. 

  • To utter verbally. 

  • To wash against a surface, lap. 

noun
  • Backtalk; verbal impertinence. 

  • One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla. 

  • Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth. 

  • The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger. 

  • A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia. 

  • The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout. 

  • One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell. 

  • The edge of a high spot of land. 

  • The distinctive petal of the Orchis family. 

  • Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips. 

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