flipper vs plash

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. 

plash

verb
  • To splash. 

  • To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of. 

  • To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter. 

  • To cause a splash. 

  • To bend down a bough (in order to pick fruit from it). 

noun
  • A splash, or the sound made by a splash. 

  • A small pool of standing water; a puddle. 

  • A sudden downpour. 

  • The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches. 

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