Definition of "flip"

[…] who looked at Dean a moment, crossed over the stage to him, raised himself on his toes, dashed his own hat firmly down to his ears, and every one on the stage supposed Dean was about to receive a flip on the ear or nose.

1851, Falconbridge, Dan. Marble: A Biographical Sketch, page 98

He loaded his flip and took careful aim at what he considered to be Emily's most vulnerable spot […]

1986, George Scarbrough, A summer ago, page 123

What they bring to the table is hard-won brass-tacks knowledge from over fifteen years of personal investing as well as riding shotgun on over 1,000 flips with their clients.

2007, Rick Villani, Clay Davis, Gary Keller, Flip: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit, page viii

In the case of rifles flip is counteracted by the sighting of the weapons, and it is because of flip that the sights cannot be set so that the line of sight is exactly parallel to the axis of the bore.

1961, Sir Gerald Burrard, The gun. The cartridge, page 224

A small, lightweight round, such as a .22 LR, generates very manageable recoil and muzzle flip (how much the nose of the gun flips up when you fire it).

2015, Tara Dixon Engel, The Handgun Guide for Women, page 33

However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move.

2011 September 16, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan”, in BBC Sport‎

Crucially, our research suggests that space weather is able to flip a signal in either direction, turning a red signal green or a green signal red. The former is obviously much more significant from a safety perspective.

2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 31

I got a silver ring with a "B" on it for Beatles. I really flip for those excellent guys.

1964, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

Quick cash, flip that, now I got big cash. Sit back, sip yak with a next piff yat.

2018 November 30, “Bits” (track 10), in Original Sounds‎, performed by Bru-C and Window Kid

Typically, the art world disdains “flipping” — when a collector buys a work and then immediately resells it at a profit.

2021 March 11, Scott Reyburn, “JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace”, in The New York Times‎

The bill makes it illegal to encourage borrowers to repeatedly refinance, or "flip," a loan primarily to collect more fees.

2002, BNA's Banking Report, volume 78, page 747

Some of our consumer protection offices are all too familiar with the abusive practice of "flipping" loans.

2002, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Predatory Mortgage Lending, page 70

"Flip me the details, and I'll have a sneaky beaky round for you."

2014, Martyn Kinsella-Jones, A Falling of Angels

I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.

2022, Michelle McCraw, Boss Me

Rising above it all, an American flag flipped in the breeze.

2016, Dan Eberhart, A Pact with the Living

Impossible. He's dining out and coming on here after. He can't be reached. / Oh, flip!

1967, Peter Shaffer, Black comedy, including White lies: two plays

"Oh flip, don't come near this place," she said. It was dangerous. The Catholics had banners up on the Garvaghy Road saying, 'No Protestants here'.

2000, Susan McKay, Northern Protestants

[H]e had provided vast quantities of strong beer, flip, rumbo, and burnt brandy, with plenty of Barbadoes water for the ladies […] .

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […]

I frequently took of large potations, though not of champagne certainly, but port, strong ales, and punch, and when our funds were low as sometimes happened, hot flip […] .

1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 21