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词汇 flip
释义 flip
verb
uk /flɪp/ us /flɪp/-pp-

flipverb (TURN)


[ I or T, usually+ adv/prep ]
If you flip something, you turn it over quickly one or more times, and if something flips, it turns over quickly: (使)快速翻转;迅速翻动
I flipped the book (over) to look at the back cover.我很快地把书翻过去看了看封底。
I lost my place in my book when the pages flipped over in the wind.风把书页吹乱了,我找不到正在看的那个地方了。
flip someone/something overCarefully flip the cake over, so that it's right-side-up.
Eventually a wave flipped him over, and he was able to call for help.
flip a switchYou turn the machine on by flipping (= operating) the switch on the side.把边上的开关按一下,机器就启动了。
[ T ]
to cook something by turning it over several times over heat: 翻烤(食物)
I don't want to spend the rest of my life flipping burgers.我可不想一辈子都翻烤汉堡。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Turning upside down
ass
capsize
go ass over (tea)kettleidiom
invert
inverted
invertible
loop the loopidiom
overturn
supinate
upend
upset
upside down
upturned

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Preparing food

flipverb (IMPROVE AND SELL)


[ T ]mainly US
to buy something, such as a house, that is not in very good condition, improve it, then sell it quickly for more money: 迅速转售(稍作装修后的房子)以获取利润
I am going to take three weeks' vacation and flip this house.我要休假三个星期,稍微装修一下这个房子然后卖掉。
She makes money flipping old and tired furniture pieces.
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Building: construction work & workers
banksman
blaster
break groundidiom
brick
brick something up
drainer
electrician
erection
erector
found
reconstruction
reface
refurb
refurbish
refurbished
tanking
thatcher
tiler
well built
workman

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Selling
Restoring and reviving

flipverb (CHANGE SIDES)


[ I or T ]
to change sides, or make someone change sides, and start to give secret information about an organization, country, etc.:
Counterintelligence was dependent on spies who had been flipped.
FBI agents started the process of trying to get him to flip.
[ I or T ]mainly USinformal
to make a statement in a court of law against someone when you are both accused of a crime; to persuade someone to do this:
There are cases in which prosecutors have threatened to seek the death penalty unless a witness flips against a co-defendant.
He is a Federal prosecutor who specializes in flipping witnesses.
[ I or T ]mainly USinformal
to change from supporting one political party to supporting a different one; to make people in a particular place do this:
They produced a list of the districts that are considered most likely to flip in the upcoming elections.
The Democrats are expected to flip at least two Republican-held congressional districts in Texas.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Changing
about-face
about-turn
alterable
altered
alternate
churn
disturb
make something into something
malleable
meta
metamorphose
modulate
morph
pervert
rollback
rotation
rotational
sanitization
semi-domesticated
transcribe

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Elections
International relations: United States politics & government

Idioms


flip a coin
flip your lid
flip the script

Phrasal verbs


flip someone off
flip out
flip through something
flip
noun[ C ]
uk /flɪp/ us /flɪp/
an occasion when something turns over quickly or repeatedly: 翻动,翻转
a flip of a coin抛硬币
The acrobats were doing somersaults and flips (= jumping and turning their bodies over in the air).杂技演员们正在翻筋斗和空翻。
Compare
somersaultnoun
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Turning upside down
ass
capsize
go ass over (tea)kettleidiom
invert
inverted
invertible
loop the loopidiom
overturn
supinate
upend
upset
upside down
upturned
flip
adjective
uk /flɪp/ us /flɪp/flipper | flippest
UK
informal forflippant(flippant的非正式说法)
Synonyms
impudent
insolent
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Not showing careful thought
airily
airiness
airy
bang something out
bash
bash something out
frivolously
ill-conceived
incaution
incautious
incautiously
off the cuffidiom
pat
preconceived
shallow
shallowly
shallowness
shoot from the hipidiom
unreflective
unthinking
flip
exclamation
UKold-fashionedinformaluk /flɪp/ us /flɪp/
used when you are slightly annoyed: “不!”(感叹词,表示愠怒)
Oh, flip, I've missed the bus.哦不!我错过公交车了。
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Expressions of anger
ay
bally
beg
biscuit
blast
blasted
bloody
dickens
doggone
drat
dratted
egad
fie
flaming
la
marry
need
precious
put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it!idiom
rats

flip | American Dictionary


flip
verb[ I/T ]
us/flɪp/-pp-
to cause something to turn over quickly one or more times, or to cause something to move by making a short, quick motion:
[ I/T ]I flipped (through) the pages of the dictionary to look up a word.
[ T ]You just flip a switch to turn on the computer.
[ T ]At the beginning of a football game, the referee flips a coin (= throws it into the air so that it spins in falling) to see which team gets the ball first.

Phrasal verb


flip out
flip
noun[ C ]
us/flɪp/
the act of turning something over quickly one or more times:
They settled the issue by a flip of the coin.
A flip is also a jump in which you swing your legs over your head as your whole body turns around, so that you come down on your feet in the position you started from.

flip | Business English


flip
verb[ T ]
uk /flɪp/us-pp-
STOCK MARKET, PROPERTY
to sell shares or property immediately after you have bought them in order to make a quick profit:
Big institutional clients of investment banks buy and then flip the shares.
They are looking to flip the property: they buy at the first stage of development, and aim to sell before they have to pay the final instalment.
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