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flipping en · ADJ

(not-comparable) A mild intensifier; a minced oath of "fucking".
- "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." 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 19:
- Darn it! That flipping racoon got into the trash again!
- I was there from 8 September to 2 October - over three flipping weeks! 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 162:
- Where's my flipping watch?

(UK, euphemistic, not-comparable) 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?

(countable, uncountable) The process of something being flipped or turned over.
- coin flippings
(countable, uncountable) The practice of buying something, making improvements to it, and reselling it for a higher price.
(countable, slang, uncountable) Tripping on psychedelics while rolling on empathogens or entactogens.

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
flippings	Number=Plur		lexicographic

(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of flip
form of flip