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FLIPPER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does flipper mean?

• FLIPPER (noun)
The noun FLIPPER has 2 senses:

1. a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
2. the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming

Familiarity information: FLIPPER used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FLIPPER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

flipper; fin

Hypernyms ("flipper" is a kind of...):

shoe (footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("flipper" is a kind of...):

limb (one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper)

Holonyms ("flipper" is a part of...):

aquatic vertebrate (animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water)

aquatic mammal (whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals)

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