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flipping through

flipping through is the present participle and gerund of flip through.

Meaning of flip through

Verb

flip through (third-person singular simple present flips through, present participle flipping through, simple past and past participle flipped through)

  1. Synonym of thumb (“to turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily”).
    Synonyms:
    thumb

Questions about flipping through

What is flipping through the present participle and gerund of?
Flipping through is the present participle and gerund of flip through.

Words near flipping through in the dictionary

  1. flipping over
  2. flipping shit
  3. flipping the bird
  4. flipping the lid
  5. flipping the script
  6. flipping through
  7. flippings
  8. Flippins
  9. flippity-flop
  10. flippity-floppity
  11. flipple

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flipping through (page history and authors); flip through (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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