Flipper
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Flipper may refer to:
Common meanings
- Flipper (anatomy), a forelimb of an aquatic animal, useful for steering and/or propulsion in water
- Alternate name for a swimfin, footwear that boosts human swimming efficiency
- Flipper (pinball), a part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball
- A speculator who engages in flipping (buying and selling quickly)
Film and television
- Flipper (1963 film), about a bottlenose dolphin named Flipper
- Flipper's New Adventure (1964), sequel to the 1963 film
- Flipper (1964 TV series), an adaptation of the 1963 film which originally ran from 1964 to 1967
- Flipper (1995 TV series), a revival of the 1964 series which ran from 1995 to 2000
- Flipper (1996 film), a remake of the 1963 film starring Paul Hogan and Elijah Wood
- Flipper, one of the title characters of the Australian animated series Flipper and Lopaka
Music
- Die Flippers, a German Schlager group
- Die Flippers (album), the group's first studio album, released in 1970
- Flipper (band), a punk band from San Francisco, California
- Flipper, a former member of the lesbian punk band Tribe 8
Military
- Operation Flipper, a British World War II commando raid with the goal of assassinating Erwin Rommel
- Flipper, NATO reporting name of the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152A Soviet fighter aircraft
- M138 "Flipper" portable mine layer - see GEMSS mine system
People
- Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940), the first African-American cadet to graduate from West Point
- Willie Flipper Anderson (born 1965), former National Football League wide receiver
- nickname of Kirsten Flipkens (born 1986), Belgian tennis player
- nickname of Leandro Ruiz Machado (born 1977), Brazilian water polo player
- nickname of Carmen Milano (1929–2006), American disbarred lawyer and mobster
Other uses
- Flipper (cricket), a type of delivery bowled by a wrist spin bowler
- Flipper (mascot), Miami Dolphins mascot from 1966 to 1968
- Flipper (robot combat), a device used to flip over opposing robots
- nickname for a spatula (cooking instrument)
- nickname for a television remote control
- nickname for a temporary removable partial denture
- nickname for a temporary removable dental veneer ("pageant flippers")
- nickname for a malasada, a fried dough pastry popular on Cape Cod
- the ATI-produced Graphics Processing Unit chip used in the Nintendo GameCube videogame console
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