Meaning

3 senses
  1. (UK, informal)Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.

    I hate to be flip, but perhaps we could steal a Christmas tree.

  2. Sarcastic.

  3. (informal)Disrespectful, flippant.

    Don't get flip with me or I'll knock you into next Tuesday!

More definitions
  • marked by casual disrespect

Examples

229 sentences
  1. Tom flipped over the card and saw that it was the ace of spades.

    Том перевернув карту і побачив, що це був виновий туз. — deniko

  2. The train flipped over.

    Поїзд перевернувся. — bicolino34

    ruПоезд перевернулся. — heccele

  3. I flipped the coin.

    Я підкинув монету. — deniko

    ruЯ подбросил монету. — marafon

  4. Flip a coin.

    Підкинь монету. — deniko

    ruПодбрось монету. — marafon

    deWirf eine Münze. — Yorwba

  5. Can't we just flip a coin?

    deKönnen wir nicht einfach eine Münze werfen? — Luiaard

Origin

Clipping of flippant.

Clipping of flippant.

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Forms

flipper, flippest
Comparativeflipper Lesson
Superlativeflippest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
disrespectful:cheekyB2
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

Collocations

10 patterns
  • wearing flip flops
  • flipping flipping through
  • flip flops
  • flipping flipping
  • started flipping flipping
  • flipped through the
  • wearing flip
  • flipped on the
  • flipped through
  • started flipping

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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