<adj.all> a flip answer to serious question the student was kept in for impudent behavior
Flip \Flip\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flipped} (fl[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flipping}.] To become insane or irrational; -- often used with out; as, seeing her mother killed made the girl flip out. [PJC]
Flip \Flip\ (fl[i^]p), n. [Cf. Prov. E. flip nimble, flippant, also, a slight blow. Cf. {Flippant}.] A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
{Flip dog}, an iron used, when heated, to warm flip.
Flip \Flip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flipped} (fl[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flipping}.] 1. To toss (an object) into the air so as make it turn over one or more times; to fillip; as, to flip up a cent.
As when your little ones Do 'twixt their fingers flip their cherry stones. --W. Browne.
2. To turn (a flat object) over with a quick motion; as, to flip a card over; to flip a pancake. [PJC]
3. To cause (a person) to turn against former colleagues, such as to become a witness for the state, in a criminal prosecution in which the person is a defendant. [cant] [PJC]
4. (Finance) To resell (an asset) rapidly to make a quick profit. [cant] [PJC]
If that bolt worked loose or somehow failed, simulator tests showed, the stabilizer would flip leading-edge-up, making the plane dive.
Filipino Labor: The flip side of savings in the Philippines for U.S taxpayers is low wages for Filipinos.
With the stock reaching a high of 21 1/2, some initial subscribers that decided to flip their stock back into the open market reaped a 43% profit in a matter of hours.
The flip side of the coins will be completely changed.
A judge ordered the coin flip.
The analysts say their gloomy forecasts have a flip side.
"That final flip of the dollar on Dec. 31 just slaughtered them."
Ray's first major record release, "Cry," with "The Little White Cloud That Cried" on the flip side provided him the No. 1 and No. 2 songs in the country in 1950.
Kelly Garrison-Steves is a member of the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team and, as such, will be counted upon to flip and fly with the best of 'em at Seoul come September.
Adds Lloyd Lynford, president of Reis Reports, a real estate market research firm in New York: "We're seeing the positive flip side of the decline of real estate values in the aftermath of October 1987.
Indeed, the flip side of the incorporation is that exchange members have limited liability for any trespasses by fellow members.
We're not about to accept an America where all we do is flip each other's hamburgers and take in each other's laundry for $3.35 an hour.
Does the two-year flip amount to more than buying from the public when values were low, and selling when they are dear?
Slattery called the long-awaited legislation "strictly marginal.""It's a coin flip as to whether it will work," he said. "On a marginal basis, I support this bill.
Reagan's close friend and confidant, Paul Laxalt, said that the next time around, "we will let Reagan be Reagan." That 1984 faceoff also had stirred up the "age issue" _ the flip side of an issue that has dogged Quayle.
"They prefer flip charts they can write on that can't be erased."
On graduation day, Wednesday, Rafael and his classmates help one another put on their caps, careful to flip the tassels to the left.
The flip side of the buyout wave has been that buyers generally moved up the list.
Relations between the superpowers may seem as warm as a McDonald's hamburger in Moscow, but a new flood of anti-American attacks is showing the flip side of glasnost.
"Usually you know about halfway across whether you're going to make it or not, and about then I knew I was going to be all right," he said. "But I thought I was getting back too far, and I didn't want to flip over.
Previously, competitors had continuously to flip a pancake in a pan as they ran, but nowadays only a toss at the start and finish is required.
No, the greatness of sitcoms rests on one foundation: You always know exactly what you're going to get when you flip on a situation comedy: 22 minutes in a living room or an office.
Remote control negates the need to flip dials.
The flip side of this strategy is to accelerate deductions in 1987, when rates are higher and write-offs will have more value.
But the flip side is these beaches have been heavily oiled and everything's dead anyway." _ Alaska Gov. Steve Cowper, on the state's decision to allow Exxon to use potentially toxic fertilizer to remove oil from stained beaches.
"Why is it that the Senate's resolve to fight drug abuse and drug-related crime hangs on whether we will flip the switch on the electric chair," asked Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore.
We've got to realize that it's a shrinking world and if we want to do more than flip the hamburgers for the world we've got to come out with quality products," Mosbacher said.
It wasn't easy. Complex appraisals, some of them fraudulent, had been conducted on the New Mexico real estate involved in the land flip.
For next season it comes in A-line or trapeze, styles favored in Hepurn's most famous film, "Breakfast at Tiffany's." The hemline is shorter than 30 years ago, usually around the lower thigh, giving it a modern flip look.
But on the flip side, Hallmark's photographs "have gone up to an incredible degree," he said.