A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.
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 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.
To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.
A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
A localized glow of light.
In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
A set of players in quadrille etc.
A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
A supply of resources.
A small amount of liquid on a surface.
Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
To form a pool.
To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.