flipper vs pounce

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. 

pounce

verb
  • To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons. 

  • To eagerly seize an opportunity. 

  • To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder. 

  • To attack suddenly by leaping. 

  • To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something. 

  • To stamp holes in; to perforate. 

noun
  • Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc. 

  • A sudden leaping attack. 

  • A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface. 

  • A punch or stamp. 

  • Cloth worked in eyelet holes. 

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