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"ref": "1986, George Scarbrough, A summer ago, page 123",
"text": "He loaded his flip and took careful aim at what he considered to be Emily's most vulnerable spot […]",
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"ref": "2007, Rick Villani, Clay Davis, Gary Keller, Flip: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit, page viii",
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"in a pan"
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"food",
"lifestyle"
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{
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"perfective"
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"_dis1": "46 3 4 8 7 4 4 3 2 5 11 2 0",
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"imperfective"
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"perfective"
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"text": "The district attorney was able to strengthen his case against the bank robber by flipping the getaway driver.",
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{
"text": "I'd flip if anyone broke my phone.",
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[
"crazy",
"crazy"
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"(intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy; to get extremely angry."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1964, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure\nI got a silver ring with a \"B\" on it for Beatles. I really flip for those excellent guys."
}
],
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"To go berserk or crazy; to be extremely thrilled or enthusiastic."
],
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[
"berserk",
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[
"crazy",
"crazy"
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],
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"(intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy; to be extremely thrilled or enthusiastic."
],
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"intransitive",
"slang"
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},
{
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{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
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"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
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"source": "w"
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{
"text": "Those companies have been flipping houses in the real estate market for years.",
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},
{
"ref": "2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited",
"text": "After the formal part of dealer interviews, often later over a glass of wine, tales would be told of how the dealer does cope with pricing decisions, how other dealers are thought to set prices, and the pricing problems that result when evil collectors flip new paintings at auction.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 November 30, “Bits” (track 10), in Original Sounds, performed by Bru-C and Window Kid",
"text": "Quick cash, flip that, now I got big cash. Sit back, sip yak with a next piff yat.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 March 11, Scott Reyburn, “JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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}
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[
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[
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[
"asset",
"asset"
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[
"real estate",
"real estate"
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[
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],
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"slang",
"transitive"
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},
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{
"ref": "2002, BNA's Banking Report, volume 78, page 747",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Predatory Mortgage Lending, page 70",
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"type": "quotation"
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],
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"To refinance (a loan), accruing additional fees."
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[
"finance",
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[
"refinance",
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[
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[
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[
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"bit",
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"transitive"
],
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"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
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{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 6 6 4 4 3 2 62 4 2 0",
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"sense": "to invert a bit (binary digit)",
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{
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{
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{
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"word": "lapoz"
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{
"ref": "2014, Martyn Kinsella-Jones, A Falling of Angels",
"text": "\"Flip me the details, and I'll have a sneaky beaky round for you.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To hand over or pass along."
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]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022, Michelle McCraw, Boss Me",
"text": "I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To switch to another task, etc."
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[
"switch",
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],
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"(intransitive, informal) To switch to another task, etc."
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"informal",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
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{
"ref": "2016, Dan Eberhart, A Pact with the Living",
"text": "Rising above it all, an American flag flipped in the breeze.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To flap."
],
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[
"flap",
"flap"
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],
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"(intransitive) To flap."
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"intransitive"
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}
],
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪp"
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{
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/En-us-flip.ogg",
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],
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{
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"word": "flip burgers"
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"word": "flip-screen"
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"text": "You need to flip the pancake onto the other side.",
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{
"ref": "2011 September 16, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan”, in BBC Sport",
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"ref": "2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 31",
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{
"word": "turn over"
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"transitive"
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"text": "Wisconsin had been Democratic for decades, but the Republicans flipped it in 2016.",
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{
"text": "The mafioso flipped on his superiors to get a lighter sentence.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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],
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[
"testify",
"testify"
]
],
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"tags": [
"US",
"intransitive"
]
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"categories": [
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{
"text": "The district attorney was able to strengthen his case against the bank robber by flipping the getaway driver.",
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"testify",
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"US",
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]
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{
"text": "I'd flip if anyone broke my phone.",
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"berserk",
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"crazy",
"crazy"
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"intransitive",
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{
"text": "1964, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure\nI got a silver ring with a \"B\" on it for Beatles. I really flip for those excellent guys."
}
],
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],
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[
"berserk",
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"crazy"
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"intransitive",
"slang"
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{
"text": "Those companies have been flipping houses in the real estate market for years.",
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},
{
"ref": "2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited",
"text": "After the formal part of dealer interviews, often later over a glass of wine, tales would be told of how the dealer does cope with pricing decisions, how other dealers are thought to set prices, and the pricing problems that result when evil collectors flip new paintings at auction.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 November 30, “Bits” (track 10), in Original Sounds, performed by Bru-C and Window Kid",
"text": "Quick cash, flip that, now I got big cash. Sit back, sip yak with a next piff yat.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 March 11, Scott Reyburn, “JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "Typically, the art world disdains “flipping” — when a collector buys a work and then immediately resells it at a profit.",
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}
],
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],
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[
"finance",
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"purchase",
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[
"resell",
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[
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[
"real estate",
"real estate"
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[
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],
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],
"topics": [
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"finance"
]
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{
"ref": "2002, BNA's Banking Report, volume 78, page 747",
"text": "The bill makes it illegal to encourage borrowers to repeatedly refinance, or \"flip,\" a loan primarily to collect more fees.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Predatory Mortgage Lending, page 70",
"text": "Some of our consumer protection offices are all too familiar with the abusive practice of \"flipping\" loans.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To refinance (a loan), accruing additional fees."
],
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"finance",
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]
},
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"categories": [
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"en:Computing"
],
"glosses": [
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[
"computing",
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[
"invert",
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[
"bit",
"bit"
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"transitive"
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"ref": "2014, Martyn Kinsella-Jones, A Falling of Angels",
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}
],
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"To hand over or pass along."
],
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[
"hand over",
"hand over"
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[
"pass",
"pass"
],
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"along",
"along"
]
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022, Michelle McCraw, Boss Me",
"text": "I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.",
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}
],
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{
"ref": "2016, Dan Eberhart, A Pact with the Living",
"text": "Rising above it all, an American flag flipped in the breeze.",
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"To flap."
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],
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"(intransitive) To flap."
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"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "galab",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic"
],
"word": "قَلَب"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podhvǎrljam",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "подхвърлям"
},
{
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "galvdvniha",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "ᎦᎸᏛᏂᎭ"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "heittää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "retourner"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "umdrehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "wenden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"raw_tags": [
"in a pan"
],
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"topics": [
"food",
"lifestyle"
],
"word": "schwenken"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "feldob"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "felfordít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "fordít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "átfordít"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "capovolgere"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"in a pan"
],
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
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"food",
"lifestyle"
],
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},
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "a întoarce"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "a răsturna"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perevoráčivatʹ",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "перевора́чивать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "perevernútʹ",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "переверну́ть"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "preokrenuti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "dar vuelta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to throw (as in to turn over)",
"word": "voltear"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"word": "heittää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"word": "donner une pichenette"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"word": "werfen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"word": "feldob"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"word": "felpattint"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"word": "csettint"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"word": "fricskáz"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podbrásyvatʹ",
"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подбра́сывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "подбро́сить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "броса́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "бро́сить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "metátʹ",
"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "мета́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "metnútʹ",
"sense": "to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "метну́ть"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
"word": "pimahtaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
"word": "seota"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
"word": "ausflippen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "flipáro",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
"word": "φλιπάρω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
"word": "bedühödik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
"word": "feldühödik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
"word": "bepöccen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
"word": "begorombul"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
"word": "kiborul"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
"word": "impazzirsi"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzbesítʹsja",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "взбеси́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svixnútʹsja",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "свихну́ться"
},
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"roman": "spjátitʹ",
"sense": "to go berserk or crazy",
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"sense": "to invert a bit (binary digit)",
"word": "kääntää"
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"ref": "1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 21",
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