Flipper

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Flipper may refer to:

Cooking and food

• flipper, also known as a malasada, a fried dough pastry popular on Cape Cod
• another name for the spatula cooking instrument

Film and television

• Flipper (1963 film), a film about a bottlenose dolphin named Flipper, starring Chuck Connors and Luke Halpin
  • Flipper's New Adventure, a 1964 sequel film starring Luke Halpin and Pamela Franklin
• Flipper (1964 TV series), an adaptation of the 1963 film which originally ran from 1964 to 1967
• Flipper (1995 TV series), a revival of the 1964 series which ran from 1995 to 2000
• Flipper (1996 film), a remake of the 1963 film starring Paul Hogan and Elijah Wood
• Flipper and Lopaka, a 1999 Australian animated television series, with additional stories made in 2005
• Flipper, a fictional dolphin in various films including the 1996 film Flipper starring Paul Hogan and Elijah Wood

Games and sports

• Flipper, the name of the ATi-produced Graphics Processing Unit chip used in the Nintendo GameCube videogame console
• flipper (cricket), a type of delivery bowled by a wrist spin bowler
• flipper (pinball), a part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball
• flipper (swimming), a swimfin to aid movement through the water

Music

• Die Flippers, a German Schlager group
• Flipper (band), a punk band from San Francisco, California

People

• Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940), the first African-American cadet to graduate from West Point
• Flipper Anderson, former National Football League wide receiver
• nickname of American mobster Carmen Milano
• nickname of Brazilian water polo player Leandro Ruiz Machado
• Flipper (mascot), Miami Dolphins mascot from 1966 to 1968

Other uses

• flipper (anatomy), a limb on some animals
• flipper (robot combat), a device used to flip over opposing robots
• Operation Flipper, a British World War II commando raid with the goal of assassinating Erwin Rommel
• a slang term for a temporary removable partial denture
• a speculator who engages in flipping (buying and selling quickly)
• another word for a television remote control

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