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flipper
noun- the hand UK, 1812
- Reach out to the clerk, shake his flipper, and say, “Hi ya, glad to see you again.” — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 201, 1948
- to a lineman in American football, the forearm US
- — Zander Hollander and Paul Zimmerman, Football Lingo, p. 45, 1967
- the ear US, 1905
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Dictionary, p. 11, 1945
- a temporary partial denture used to mask the absence of a single tooth or several teeth, especially with child actors US, 1999
Technically known as a “stayplate”, it flips in and out of the child’s mouth. - a friend UK
- And somehow that was the moment she became my best flipper. From that time on I truly loved her. — Adrian Reid, Confessions of a Hitch-Hiker, 1970
- a criminal who informs on friends and associates to reduce his own sentence or to completely avoid charges US
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 51, 1997
- in the television and film industries, a section of set that can be easily replaced UK
- — Oswald Skilbeck, ABC of Film and TV Working Terms, p. 55, 1960
- the game of pinball US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, March 1974
- in hot rodding, a hubcap US
- — Good Housekeeping, p. 143, September 1958: “Hot-rod terms for teen-age girls”
- — Tom MacPherson, Dragging and Driving, p. 138, 1960
- a turn signal in a truck or car US
- — Dictionary of CB Lingo, p. 66, 1976: “Elementary electronics”
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