: a broad flat limb (as of a seal or cetacean) adapted for swimming
b
: a flat shoe (as of rubber or silicone) with the front expanded into a paddle that is used to aid movement through water (as in snorkeling or scuba diving)
called alsofin, swim fin
2
: someone or something that flips or is used in flipping
spatulas and pancake flippers
pinball flippers
He worked as a burger flipper.
A flipper is a person who changes TV channels just to see what else is on.Springfield (Massachusetts) Morning Union
He also interviews house "flippers" who buy cheap property with an eye toward making some inexpensive improvements to spruce it up and then quickly "flipping" it, or reselling it at a value-added price for a tidy profit. James Prichard
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Recent Examples on the WebThere, an archaeologist named Achilles Dionysopoulos filled us in on the protocol for diving the delicate site—most importantly, to never pass above the wreck in case a stray flipper disturbed sand or an item like a camera was dropped. Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 27 May 2022 Slater was found on the beach at Sandy Hook with a front flipper that had to be amputated after being mangled by a boat propeller. Wayne Perry, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2022 Rescuers found the little turtle lying on its back in a rockpool at Tamarama Beach, missing a flipper and with a hole in its shell, according to the Guardian. Bellamy Richardson, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022 Renée Zellweger stars as Pam Hupp, a stay-at-home-mom and amateur house flipper in Missouri who's now serving a life sentence for murder and awaiting trial for another. Ew Staff, EW.com, 28 July 2022 Maxine Montello and her team at the New York Marine Rescue Center also worked to rehabilitate a male seal named Cedar, who was found with a badly infected flipper. Michael George, CBS News, 22 July 2022 On his second effort as an electric vehicle flipper, Wang made $4,000.Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022 Freya’s small tusks mark her as a young walrus, and a white scar on her right nostril and previous injury on her flipper help distinguish her from other members of her species that have undertaken similar tours in the last few years. Caroline Radnofsky, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2022 TexasTeeMiguel was found in Galveston Bay near Texas City, Texas last December suffering from cold stress, flipper damage and severe weight loss, injuries likely incurred from a boat strike.Fox News, 28 July 2022 See More