Flip Explained

Flip, FLIP, or flips may refer to:

People

• 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

Fictional characters

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
• RV FLIP ("Floating Instrument Platform"), a 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

• 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

• 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

See also

• • Flippin (disambiguation)
• Flop (disambiguation)
• Flipped (disambiguation)
• Flipper (disambiguation)