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tailflips

tailflips is the plural of tailflip.

Meaning of tailflip

Noun

tailflip (plural tailflips)

  1. A movement used by crustaceans to escape predators, involving rapid abdominal flexions that propel the creature backwards through the water.

Questions about tailflips

What is tailflips the plural of?
Tailflips is the plural of tailflip.

Words near tailflips in the dictionary

  1. tailfin
  2. tailfins
  3. tailfirst
  4. tailflip
  5. tailflipping
  6. tailflips
  7. tailflower
  8. tailflowers
  9. tailforemost
  10. tailgate
  11. tailgate parties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailflips (page history and authors); tailflip (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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