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flipper
[ flip-er ]
noun
- a broad, flat limb, as of a seal or whale, especially adapted for swimming.
- Also called fin. one of a pair of paddlelike devices, usually of rubber, worn on the feet as an aid in scuba diving and swimming.
- Theater. a narrow flat hinged or attached at right angles to a larger flat.
- Slang. the hand.
- someone or something that flips.
flipper
/ 藞蹿濒瑟辫蓹 /
noun
- the flat broad limb of seals, whales, penguins, and other aquatic animals, specialized for swimming
- Also calledfin often plural either of a pair of rubber paddle-like devices worn on the feet as an aid in swimming, esp underwater
- cricket a ball bowled with backspin imparted by the action of the bowler's wrist
flipper
- A wide, flat limb adapted for swimming, found on aquatic animals such as whales, seals, and sea turtles. Flippers evolved from legs.
Example Sentences
Ms Williams said scuba tanks and flippers were the most common finds but the rarest discovery yet was the first Lego shark ever reported.
Unlike me, however, my mom owned a cheap pair of flippers: those perfect, creepy-looking fake teeth toddlers wear in beauty pageants.
Experts say that the whale 鈥 a 40-foot-long, approximately 5-year-old humpback 鈥 is likely in distress because the rope is tightly tied around its right flipper and extends through its mouth.
The development of a claw or a flipper requires many particular different genes.
By phenotype, Sackton means the actual expression of that trait, like having flippers or engaging in gaze following, as opposed to its genotype, meaning the genetic makeup that results in that trait.
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