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flipping, adv. and ppl. a. slang.|ˈflɪpɪŋ|
[flip v.]
Used as a substitute for a strong expletive. Usually derog. (Cf. blinking ppl. a. 4.)
1911D. H. Lawrence White Peacock ii. ix. 347 ‘Ain't it flippin' 'ot?’ drawled Creswell. 1948C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident i. 2 Flipping heroes, ain't we all? 1954A. Heckstall-Smith Eighteen Months xii. 145, I suggested that..he might take up the game professionally. He shook his head. ‘Too much flippin' trainin',’ he sneered. 1959Spectator 20 Nov. 713/3 While terms of approval..change rapidly with the fashion, terms of disapproval (blinking..flippin' awful..) show very little alteration. 1971Guardian 24 Aug. 5/1 They wax indignant about pornography but when it comes to doing anything about it they are bone flipping lazy. |