Meaning

1 senses
  1. A movement used by crustaceans to escape predators, involving rapid abdominal flexions that propel the creature backwards through the water.

Origin

From tail + flip.

From tail + flip.

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Forms

plural: tailflips
Singulartailflip
Pluraltailflips

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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