Flipper

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Flipper may refer to:

• Flipper (anatomy), a limb on some animals
• A speculator who buys an asset in order to sell it quickly with a profit (see Flipping)
• A scuba diver's fin
• Film and television series featuring the intelligent bottlenose dolphin named Flipper:
  • Flipper (1963 film), directed by James B. Clark
  • Flipper's New Adventure, a 1964 film directed by Leon Benson
  • Flipper (1964 TV series), which originally ran from 1964-1967
  • Flipper (1995 TV series), including Jessica Alba
  • Flipper (1996 film), a 1996 film starring Elijah Wood as the main character, Sandy
  • Flipper and Lopaka, a 2001 Australian animated TV series, with additional stories made in 2005
• Flipper (band), a punk band from San Francisco
• Flipper Reddolphin, a Welsh guitarist
• Die Flippers, a German Schlager group.
• A part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball up higher on the game surface
• Another name for a pinball machine in Germany, France or Italy
• Flipper, the name of the GPU chip, produced by ATi, that is used in the Nintendo GameCube videogame console
• Flipper (cricket), a type of delivery bowled by a wrist spin bowler
• Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940), the first African American cadet to graduate from West Point
• Flipper Anderson, former NFL wide receiver who holds the single game receiving record of 336 yards.
• A hiker that skips a section of a long distance trail to come back and hike it later in the season.
• Flippers, a fried dough pastry popular on Cape Cod, also known as malasadas.
• A cooking implement, also known as a turner (or, loosely, a spatula).
• A slang term for removable partial dentures.
• The nickname of Brazilian water polo player Leandro Ruiz Machado