"flip phone" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: flip phones [plural]
Etymology: A genericized trademark of the company Motorola for their clamshell-form mobile phones Head templates: {{en-noun}} flip phone (plural flip phones)
  1. A mobile telephone with a hinged top that is flipped open when the phone is in use. Wikipedia link: Motorola Categories (topical): Mobile phones Synonyms: flip-phone Hyponyms: clamshell phone Derived forms: flip smartphone Related terms: phone Coordinate_terms: bar phone, slide phone, slider phone, brick phone Translations (mobile telephone with a hinged top that is flipped open): 翻蓋手機 (Chinese Mandarin), 翻盖手机 (fāngài shǒujī) (Chinese Mandarin), 折疊式手機 (Chinese Mandarin), 折叠式手机 (zhédiéshì shǒujī) (Chinese Mandarin), läppäpuhelin (Finnish), simpukkapuhelin (english: technically more specifically clamshell) (Finnish), téléphone à clapet [masculine] (French), Klapphandy [neuter] (German), ទូរស័ព្ទបត់ (tuurĕəʼsap-bɑt) (Khmer), раскладу́шка-телефо́н (raskladúška-telefón) [feminine] (Russian), телефо́н-раскладу́шка (telefón-raskladúška) [masculine] (Russian), viktelefon [common-gender] (Swedish), flipptelefon [common-gender] (Swedish), kapaklı telefon (Turkish)

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