flip

• vt. 掷；轻击
• vi. 用指轻弹；蹦跳
• adj. 无礼的；轻率的
• n. 弹；筋斗

来自辅音丛bl, fl, 折腾，拍打，拟声词，词源同flap, flag,flick. 引申各相关词义。

flip (v.)

1590s "to fillip, to toss with the thumb," imitative, or perhaps a thinned form of flap, or else a contraction of fillip (q.v.), which also is held to be imitative. Meaning "toss as though with the thumb" is from 1610s. Meaning "to flip a coin" (to decide something) is by 1879. Sense of "get excited" is first recorded 1950; flip (one's) lid "lose one's head, go wild" is from 1949, American English; variant flip (one's) wig attested by 1952, but the image turns up earlier in popular record reviews ["Talking Boogie. Not quite as wig-flipping as reverse side--but a wig-flipper" Billboard, Sept. 17, 1949]. Related: Flipped. Flipping (adj.) as euphemism for fucking is British slang first recorded 1911 in D.H. Lawrence. Flip side (of a gramophone record) is by 1949.

flip (n.2)

sailors' hot drink usually containing beer, brandy and sugar, 1690s, from flip (v.); so called from notion of it being "whipped up" or beaten.

flip (adj.)

"talkative and disrespectfully smart," see flippant.

flip (n.1)

1690s, "a flick, a snap;" see flip (v.). In reference to an overturning of the body, probably short for flip-flap (see flip-flop) "somersault in which the performer throws himself over on hands and feet alternately," 1670s, originally a move in (male) dancing.

1. The tone of the book is sometimes too flip.

这本书的笔调有些时候太不严肃了。

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2. The trade deficit is the flip side of a rapidly expanding economy.

贸易赤字是经济快速发展带来的负面产物。

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3. He didn't flip on the headlights until he was two blocks away.

他开出两个街区后才打开车头灯。

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4. The President's flip-flops on taxes made him appear indecisive.

总统在税收问题上的一再反复使他显得优柔寡断。

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5. He has been criticized for flip-flopping on several key issues.

他因为在几个关键问题上临场变卦而备受批评。

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