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What is the noun for flipper?

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flipper
  1. In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming.
  2. A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.
  3. A flat lever in a pinball machine, used to keep the ball in play.
  4. (cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
  5. (informal, US) Television remote control, clicker.
  6. (dated, slang) The hand.
  7. (dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
  8. A kitchen spatula.
  9. Synonyms:
      10. appendage, limb, member, fin, paddle, tail, pinna, flapper, arm, organ, hand, dorsal fin, bodypart, part, leg, wing, pinion, body part, part of the body, spur, gam, pin, bodily part … more
  10. Examples:
      11. “The flipper of the humpback whale propels it gracefully through the ocean waters.”
flip
  1. A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
  2. A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
  3. (US, slang) A slingshot.
  4. A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960's, 1970's, 2000's and 2010's, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out
  5. Synonyms:
      6. somersault, vault, cartwheel, handspring, flip-flop, tumble, forward roll, backflip, backward flip, backward somersault, backward handspring … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “He tried to do a flip onto a hayloft, missed, and was sidelined for the first five weeks of the baseball season.”
flipping
  1. The practice of buying real estate, making improvements to it, and reselling it for a higher price.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. overturn, inversion, reversal, capsizal, flip, subversion, turning upside down, juggling, throwing and catching, tossing and catching … more
flip
  1. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a flip dog).
  2. Synonyms:
      3. somersault, vault, cartwheel, handspring, flip-flop, tumble, forward roll, backflip, backward flip, backward somersault, backward handspring … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He tried to do a flip onto a hayloft, missed, and was sidelined for the first five weeks of the baseball season.”
flipness
  1. The quality of being flip.
flippers
  1. plural of flipper
  2. Synonyms:
      3. appendages, limbs, members, fins, paddles, hands, arms, organs, pinnas, flappers, dorsal fins, feet, fingers, extremities, legs, paws, pinions, body parts, bodyparts, pins, gams, spurs, wings, parts … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “My son is really into bodyboarding, although he's missing a leash and flippers, and doesn't own a wetsuit.”
      “Free masks, flippers and snorkels are usually on offer, but we were late in the day and the underwater guides had headed off to their beers.”
      “This table features five flippers, each of which are required to fuel a locomotive that runs along a railroad and through tunnels.”
flips
  1. plural of flip
  2. Synonyms:
      3. somersaults, vaults, cartwheels, handsprings, flip-flops, tumbles, forward rolls, backflips, wipeouts, falls, flops, dives, plunges, spills, stumbles, trips, drops, nosedives, belly flops, headers, croppers, crashes, rolls, slips, collapses, descent, pratfalls, missteps, false steps, tosses, blunders, staggers, slides, skids, sags, slumps, plummets, sinkage, pitch, falling, tailspins, plungings, accident, throws, lobs, hurls, casts … more
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