Flip
Appearance
Flip, FLIP, or flips may refer to:
People
[edit]- Flip (nickname), a list of people
- Lil' Flip (born 1981), American rapper
- Flip Simmons, Australian actor and musician
- Flip Wilson, American comedian
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Fictional characters
[edit]- Flip (Little Nemo), a cartoon character
- Flip, the title character of Flip's Twisted World, a video game
- Flip the Frog, a cartoon character
- Flip the grasshopper, a character in the children's book The Adventures of Maya the Bee
Music
[edit]- Flip Records (1950s), a rhythm and blues and doo-wop label based in Los Angeles
- Flip Records (1994), a record label in California
- Flips, a short name of The Flaming Lips, an American rock band formed in 1983
- Flip (album), a 1985 solo album by Nils Lofgren
- The Flip (album), a 1969 album by jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley
- "Flip", by Barenaked Ladies from Detour de Force
Business
[edit]- Flip or Flipping, an American term for buying and reselling something quickly, particularly real estate
- Flip Burger Boutique, a chain of gourmet hamburger restaurants in the southern United States
- Flip Skateboards, a skateboard and clothing company
Events
[edit]- Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty, or FLIP, an annual literary festival in Paraty, Brazil
- Festival Ludique International de Parthenay, or FLIP, a games fair in Parthenay, France
- Flip Animation Festival, Wolverhampton (UK) based international animation festival
Mathematics and statistics
[edit]- Flip (mathematics), an operation in algebraic geometry
- Reflection (mathematics), sometimes called flip, an operation that preserves distances
- Coin flip, a coin toss with a 50/50 chance of "heads" or "tails"
Science and technology
[edit]- Flip (form), a hinged form factor for handheld electronic devices
- Fast Local Internet Protocol, or FLIP, a suite of internet protocols
- FLICE-like inhibitory protein (see CFLAR), protein involved in apoptosis
- Flip Video, a video camcorder
- Fluorescence loss in photobleaching, or FLIP, a microscopy technique
- Freenet Lightweight Irc Program, or FLIP, a plugin for Freenet allowing irc-like chat
- RP FLIP ("Floating Instrument Platform"), an oceanic research vessel
- Functional Lumen Imaging Probe (FLIP) is a test used to evaluate the function of the esophagus
- Flip (software), a video discussion platform by Microsoft for use in classrooms
- FLIP = CFLAR, c-Fas-associated death domain-like interleukin-1-converting enzyme-like inhibitory protein
Sports
[edit]- Flip (acrobatic), a leap followed by one or more revolutions while airborne
- Flip jump, a figure skating element
- "The Flip", a baseball play made in the 2001 American League Division Series by Derek Jeter
Other uses
[edit]- Flip (cocktail)
- Franklin Large Igneous Province (FLIP), a large area of igneous rock in northern North America
- Flip page, the visual effect of turning pages in digital publications
- Flip hairstyle, a hairstyle popular in the 1960s
- A derogatory term pertaining to Filipinos and Filipino-Americans
- An American colloquialism for turning state's evidence