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Flipper may refer to:

In entertainment:

• Film and television series featuring the extremely intelligent bottlenose dolphin named Flipper:
  • Flipper (1963 film), directed by James B. Clark
  • Flipper's New Adventure, a 1964 film directed by Leon Benson
  • Flipper (1964 TV series), which originally ran from 1964-1967
  • Flipper (1995 TV series), including Jessica Alba
  • Flipper (1996 film), a 1996 film starring Elijah Wood as the main character, Sandy
  • Flipper and Lopaka, a 2001 Australian animated TV series, with additional stories made in 2005
• Flipper (band), a punk band from San Francisco
• Die Flippers, a German Schlager group

People:

• Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940), the first African American cadet to graduate from West Point
• Flipper Anderson, former National Football League wide receiver
• nickname of Brazilian water polo player Leandro Ruiz Machado
• nickname of American mobster Carmen Milano

Other uses

• Flipper (anatomy), a limb on some animals
• A speculator who engages in flipping (buying and selling quickly)
• A scuba diver's swimfin
• A part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball
• Another name for a pinball machine in Germany, France or Italy
• Flipper, the name of the ATi-produced Graphics Processing Unit chip used in the Nintendo GameCube videogame console
• Flipper (cricket), a type of delivery bowled by a wrist spin bowler
• A hiker that skips a section of a long distance trail to hike later in the season
• Flipper, also known as a malasada, a fried dough pastry popular on Cape Cod
• Another name for the spatula cooking instrument
• A slang term for removable partial dentures
• Operation Flipper, a British World War II commando raid with the goal of assassinating Erwin Rommel
• Another word for a television remote.
• Larry the Cable Guy's term for a homosexual.

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Proper noun

Flipper

1. a common name for animals which have flippers, such as dolphins and seals.

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Flipper

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Flipperautomat

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German

Noun

Flipper m. (genitive Flippers, plural Flipper)

1. pinball

Synonyms

• Flipperautomat

Related terms

• flippern