1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 31 The shallow Pans..are left open.. to carry away the Flip, or Slime in Currents.

1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iii. i. 54 Thus we live at Sea; eat Bisket, and drink Flip.

1709 Brit. Apollo 8–10 June The Gypsie With Flip and Geneve got most Damnably Typsie.

a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) I. xiii. 99 The Sailors were plentifully supplied with their favourite Liquor Flip.

1820 L. Hunt Indicator 15 Mar. 180 With oceans of flip and grog.

1872 C. D. Warner Backlog Stud. 16 In those good old days it was thought best to heat the poker red hot before plunging it into the mugs of flip.

1836 B. H. Smart Walker Remodelled Flip-dog, an iron heated to warm flip.

1851 S. Judd Margaret (rev. ed.) ii. xi. 164 Warm your nose with Porter's flip-dog.

1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xxxvii. 480 Draw the hot flip-iron from the fire and stir the foaming bowl.

1947 F. D. Downey Our Lusty Forefathers 7 Shaking flip-irons in each other's face, as the saying went, ‘at loggerheads’.

1692 J. Locke Toleration iii. iv. 105 A Phlip on the Fore~head..may be Penalty enough.

1818 Sporting Mag. 3 29 Newton by a smart left-handed flip, drew the claret in profusion from his mouth.

1884 W. Besant Dorothy Forster II. xiv. 64 The rubs and flips which we poor women have to endure from harsh masters.

1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) xlvii I must have a flip to my system.

1914 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 28 It was much too foggy for my trip to Hartlepool yesterday afternoon, but I went for a short flip around.

1920 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 167/2 The Moewe arrived, untouched, on 4th March, after a two months' ‘flip’.

1929 Daily Express 7 Nov. 2/1 I went to Croydon and went up again for a short ‘flip’.

1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 32 Flip, a trip in an aeroplane or in a car.

1958 Times 16 June 12/4 He..promised her a flip in his five-metre yacht.

1959 Vogue Oct. 120 A quick flip around Fenwicks, always delights Hound.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §398.3 Impudent person,..flip.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §410.3 Flip, a forward or flippant person.

1955 N. Shapiro & N. Hentoff Hear me talkin' to Ya 347 He's not a flip as far as business is concerned.

1958 New Statesman 6 Sept. 294/3 If you are not cool, you can be put down; you have lost your will and confidence. You are a flip and you are beat.

1961 ‘I. T. Ross’ Old Students never Die (1963) iv. 60 ‘She's a flip... Nuts,’ he translated, ‘Loony. Off her rocker.’

1960 Melody Maker 31 Dec. 6/1 The same can be said of the flip, also featured in the film.

1940 S. Henie Wings on my Feet 163 A flip jump..is done by placing the right toe-point to the right back outside edge at the finish of a left three. In this case, the left foot swings around, but on a close arc to the right, and you land as in a Salchow.

1960 M. V. Owen Fun Figure Skating vii. 138 If you do add the half-turn, you will be doing a full ‘flip jump’, which lands on the ROB edge in the exact way that the waltz jump landed.

1964 ‘J. Noel’ Figure Skating for Beginners ix. 92 The flip jump itself used to be known as the toe salchow or spot salchow.

1968 Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 15/6 She fell after attempting a double flip jump, but otherwise was always elegant and technically correct.

1949 Down Beat 11 Mar. 14 The flip side (South) will be a shade slower but with the same general routine.

1962 Spectator 14 Dec. 945 A slice off the flipside.

1968 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Apr. 377/1 The actual readings are on the flip side.

1971 Guardian 25 Mar. 14/4 A dogged courage..is the flip side of Mr Heath's best known vice.

1971 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 28 Mar. 7/2 The manoeuvring, the muscling, the promoting and the hustling which is the flip-side of showbiz.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Flip..(3) Nimble; flippant. Devon.

1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. 55 Flip, very kindly or friendly in talking.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Flip, pliant, flexible, same as Limber.

1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 13 Apr. She was disposed to be flip with her tongue.

1924 Drama Mag. (Chicago) Feb. 177/2 Doris is flip, exaggerated, and stagey—off the stage.

1935 Time 24 June 38/2 He is entirely too flip and smart-alecky.

1944 W. H. Auden For Time Being (1945) 110 Every martyrdom an occasion for flip cracks and sententious oratory.

1947 ‘N. Shute’ Chequer Board x. 290 He coloured hotly, and wished desperately for eloquence that he might make some flip and smart rejoinder, but no inspiration came.

1958 R. Williams in N. Mackenzie Conviction 78 How can anyone..use these new flip words for any attachment to learning or the arts?

1963 Listener 21 Mar. 529/2 I find it difficult to reconcile the authorship of the flip, alert opening scenes with the awful feyness of what followed.

1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning xii. 104 The musicians fitted themselves sensibly to the situation—they kept things light and flip and sexy.

1970 Times 9 May 9/5 The word ‘schizophrenia’ is flung about today with flip facility.

1723 London Gaz. No. 6181/4 Stolen..a..Gelding..with..what is called a Flip Tail.

1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iii. 57 As when your little ones Doe twixt their fingers flip their Cherry-stones.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xvii. 165 When it's under question, 'twere as good flip cross and pile, as to dispute for't.

1839 W. M. Thackeray Major Gahagan i She..would flip the rice into her mouth with her fingers.

1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner II. 123 Making a pellet of it, and flipping it into his eye.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iii. 65 Flip a few bits of broken worm in.

1879 N.Y. Tribune 4 Oct. The two great men could flip up to see which should have the second place.

1885 ‘H. Conway’ Fam. Affair I. xii. 229 Flipping the ash from his cigarette.

1945 J. Steinbeck Cannery Row xxvii. 118 They had to flip for who would go to the party first.

1971 ‘A. Blaisdell’ Pract. to Deceive x. 146 You want to flip for who does the report?

1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie v. iii. sig. H^v Like Iuie he her fast does hold,..And lips her. And flips her too.

1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle v. 54 Sirra, you shall be hufft and cufft, and flip'd and kick'd, Sirra, if you talk of private Rooms.

a1695 A. Wood Life (1848) 188 Then the scholars made some resistance by flipping them on the cheek.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxv. 251 He revenges himself by flipping at their ears.

1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 34 ‘My heart is as hard as this rock,’ she said, flipping her finger against the granite.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 376. ⁋2 To twirl, flip or flirt a Fan.

1880 F. Francis Bk. Angling (ed. 5) vi. 225 You must..flip your fly to and fro to shake the water out and so dry it for another cast.

1884 Leeds Mercury Wkly. Supp. 15 Nov. 1/6 The carriole-driver..is seated so low that the tail is constantly flipped over the reins.

1862 C. Kingsley Water-babies iii, in Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 438/2 He..began flirting and flipping up and down, and singing.

1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) iv Still there were lapses in the vigilance of the brook, where a lady, with her skirts up, might flip through.

1886 Science 7 263 When the water had disappeared, eight mackerel were found flipping about the deck.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 175 Flip, to shoot.

1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood III. iv. iii. 256–7 ‘Flip him, Dick—fire or I'm taken,’ cried King.

1915 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 41 I crashed into the atmosphere first thing this morning and flipped around for 55 minutes.

1956 Time 25 June 31/2 Through demonstrations, flip charts, radio talks and movies narrated in Quechua,..100,000 campesinos have learned the uses of chemical fertilizers.

1963 Sci. News Let. 18 May 320/3 Automatic flip chart, useful to advertisers, salesmen and teachers, automatically flips display charts, talks and show products. By plugging in the device the speaker can stand, sit or walk anywhere in the room and flip the pages automatically by pressing a button.

1985 Computer Bull. Mar. 21/2 I remember people being horrified when the first thing I had in my office in Number Ten was a flipchart.

1964 N. Mailer in Esquire June 116/2 I came to the conclusion I'd flip out so far I'd not come back if I stayed in Vegas too long.

1974 News & Press (Darlington, S. Carolina) 25 Apr. 9/2 I could see something in their lives that ‘flipped me out!’ I thought, ‘what's wrong with these people?’

1984 L. Alther Other Women (1985) iii. iii. 285 She asked me not to sleep with Brian Stone at our house, so I flipped out.

1988 J. McInerney Story of my Life iii. 43 What really flips him out is the meat counter. He looks at all this red meat under plastic and he goes to his cousin—who for is all this meat?

1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 192 Jeremy..disappears in my car for fourteen hours, in search, he explains when he returns, of Steven's wallet. I flip out. More about the car than anything.

1993 Empire Aug. 95/2 Heston's captive astronaut recovering his voice to insult the apes who've resnared him, totally flipping them out.

1913 Chicago Tribune 21 Jan. 6/5 Unknown celebrities... The artist with a heart tattooed on his arm, who flips flapjacks in the window of Childs' restaurant.

1978 N.Y. Times 26 Apr. c3/1 I am an artist, but, for now, flipping burgers pays the rent.

1996 N.Z. News UK 28 Feb. 8/2 After a stint flipping eggs at a breakfast bar in Queenstown, the former Invercargill mayor is back..for another career change.

2000 D. J. Dickerson Amer. Story (2001) vi. 214 I was ready to flip burgers, make lattes, or sell T-shirts on the highway off-ramp rather than tie myself to a desk, operating room, or space capsule doing something I hated.

1968 C. F. Baker et al. College Undergraduate Slang Study (typescript, Brown Univ.) 80 Bird, flip a/the, to gesture with the middle finger.

1972 G. Lucas et al. Amer. Graffiti (film script, second draft) 33 (stage direct.) He motions to roll down the window. She flips him the bird instead.

1984 TriQuarterly Spring 313 It looks like she's just about to flip him off too.

1993 Sports Illustr. 27 Sept. 71/1 Judge him in the end for what he did. Flipping the bird was not to be part of that judgement.

2001 Esquire May 146/3 Flipping off a friend, in a good way, a male-bonding way... Our eyes meet, and I give him the finger. He understands completely.