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flippering

flippering is the present participle and gerund of flipper.

Meaning of flipper

Verb

flipper (third-person singular simple present flippers, present participle flippering, simple past and past participle flippered)

  1. To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.

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Questions about flippering

What is flippering the present participle and gerund of?
Flippering is the present participle and gerund of flipper.

Words near flippering in the dictionary

  1. flipper
  2. flipper babies
  3. flipper baby
  4. flipperdinger
  5. flippered
  6. flippering
  7. flipperless
  8. flipperlike
  9. flipperling
  10. flipperlings
  11. flippers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flippering (page history and authors); flipper (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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