flipper vs plunge

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. 

plunge

verb
  • To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself. 

  • To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does. 

  • To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling. 

  • To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse. 

  • To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action. 

  • To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition. 

  • To remove a blockage by suction. 

noun
  • Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation. 

  • A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water). 

  • The act of plunging or submerging. 

  • The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse. 

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