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misflipping

misflipping is the present participle and gerund of misflip.

Meaning of misflip

Verb

misflip (third-person singular simple present misflips, present participle misflipping, simple past and past participle misflipped)

  1. To flip badly or in error.
    • As a result I had to print my speech in large block letters on the shirt boards with a black-felt pen. In flipping these over at appropriate points, I misflipped — and I "lost" one whole side, and with it a bunch of names I very much wanted to cite.2005, James Cagney, Cagney by Cagney, page 194

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Questions about misflipping

What is misflipping the present participle and gerund of?
Misflipping is the present participle and gerund of misflip.

Words near misflipping in the dictionary

  1. misflavoured
  2. misflavouring
  3. misflavours
  4. misflip
  5. misflipped
  6. misflipping
  7. misflips
  8. misflung
  9. misfocus
  10. misfocused
  11. misfocuses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misflipping (page history and authors); misflip (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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