flipper vs rifle

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. 

rifle

verb
  • To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off. 

  • To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder. 

  • To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle) 

  • To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet). 

  • To commit robbery or theft. 

  • To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage. 

  • To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory. 

  • To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy. 

noun
  • An artillery piece with a rifled barrel. 

  • A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel. 

  • A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes. 

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