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flipping

verbadjectiveadverbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈflɪpɪŋ//

A mild intensifier; a minced oath of "fucking".

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of flippresent participle and gerund of flip

adjective

  1. 1

    A mild intensifier; a minced oath of "fucking".

    Where's my flipping watch?

    Darn it! That flipping racoon got into the trash again!

    "Sister?" I inquired. "She ain't 'ere," a man's voice said. "What's more," it went on, "she ain't been 'ere for ruddy hours, neither. Can't you pull them ruddy curtains, mate, and let's 'ave some flippin' light? Don't know what's come over the bloody place this morning."

    I was there from 8 September to 2 October - over three flipping weeks!

adverb

  1. 1

    fucking; used as an intensifier to modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs

    Do you flipping think I'm stupid?

    Can't you see I'm trying to flipping fix something?

noun

  1. 1

    The process of something being flipped or turned over.

    coin flippings

  2. 2

    The practice of buying something, making improvements to it, and reselling it for a higher price.

  3. 3

    slangTripping on psychedelics while rolling on empathogens or entactogens.

Forms

plural
flippings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).