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flip the lid

flip the lid is the alternative form of flip one's lid.

Meaning of flip one's lid

Verb

flip one's lid (third-person singular simple present flips one's lid, present participle flipping one's lid, simple past and past participle flipped one's lid)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To become explosively angry, to lose one's temper.
    • Wait, you'll see. Three hours on a night like this is enough to make you flip your lid.1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, New York; Toronto: Rinehart & Company, page 113

Forms of flip the lid

third-person singular presentflips the lid
present participleflipping the lid
past participleflipped the lid
pastflipped the lid

Questions about flip the lid

What is flip the lid the alternative form of?
Flip the lid is the alternative form of flip one's lid.

Words near flip the lid in the dictionary

  1. flip smartphone
  2. flip smartphones
  3. flip teaching
  4. flip the bird
  5. flip the kipper
  6. flip the lid
  7. flip the script
  8. flip through
  9. flip throw
  10. flip throws
  11. flip turn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flip the lid (page history and authors); flip one's lid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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