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flip

noun as in throw, jump with abandon

verb as in throw, jump with abandon

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The seat is considered among the most likely to flip this year.

This stability is invaluable, as traveling rough side-hills is an easy way to flip your machine.

Recent research shows that the Arctic peatlands will flip from being carbon sinks to carbon sources as the region heats up further.

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It went nowhere in a Republican-controlled Senate, but that could change if the majority flips.

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These “good” drawings are only a few flips away from accepting the edge without breaking planarity.

In a neat line, his agent, beginning a bidding war, promised: “Michiko Kakutani will flip for this.”

Were you playing up or, on the flip side, shying away from portraying a romantic attraction?

The answer is that you flip state legislatures, since in most places, state legislatures draw the congressional district lines.

With the freedom of doing that, we were able to do a non-human, flip-y thing.

So whatever college campuses are doing, they need to flip that script.

Nor could they forget the Sunday mornings when his reverence took his dose of egg-flip before church, in order to clear his voice.

Caroline, unable decently to go away, gives her gown a sort of flip on one side, as if to produce a separation.

With a deft twist and flip he tossed the open noose over his prisoner's upheld wrists and jerked it tight.

Up flies his rapier idly—she with a sudden flip tosses it higher still, and with a leap, by Gox!

Then, with one quick flip of his wrist and a sudden spasmodic movement of his gullet, he downed it.

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On this page you'll find 76 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flip, such as: cast, chuck, flick, jerk, pitch, and snap.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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