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flipper

[flip-er] / ˈflɪp ər /


NOUN
extremity
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STRONG
NOUN
fin
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Even if you look slightly farther afield—specifically to a Montecito home that was bought by A-list home flipper Ellen DeGeneres in November 2025—it’s clear that price estimates don’t always reflect a home’s true value.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

The three-bedroom, one-bath home was dilapidated before an out-of-state house flipper fixed it up, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

One ex-house flipper said he’d experimented with 50 AI-generated business ideas before landing on one he liked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

In fact, as with Porkchop, it was wound tightly around her front right flipper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

It flops across my body, feeling like a flipper, no, something less animated, like a club.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

America’s housing affordability crisis is leading more home buyers and flippers to give dilapidated Baltimore homes a fresh look.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Buoys and flippers still littered the ground along the fence, while others floated in the water.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

If customers sell those SpaceX shares within 15 days of the IPO, they will be flagged as flippers.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

A private company plans to refloat the injured mammal from the sea floor by its flippers and onto a tarp attached to a tug boat, officials said.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

I re­member one green sea turtle that hung from the side of the lifeboat for two days, the whole while thrashing about madly, free flippers beating in the air.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel


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