Tipping vs Flipping - What's the difference?
tipping | flipping |
The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
* 2013 , Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd
The dumping of rubbish.
(music) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.
A mild intensifier.
(euphemistic) Fucking;
The practice of buying real estate, making improvements to it, and reselling it for a higher price.
English intensifiers
As nouns the difference between tipping and flipping
is that tipping is the practice of leaving a tip (gratuity) while flipping is the practice of buying real estate, making improvements to it, and reselling it for a higher price.As verbs the difference between tipping and flipping
is that tipping is present participle of lang=en while flipping is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective flipping is
a mild intensifier.As an adverb flipping is
fucking; used as an intensifier to modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbstipping
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.
Verb
(head)flipping
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- Where's my flipping watch?
Adverb
(-)- Do you flipping think I'm stupid?
- Do you think I'm flipping stupid?
- Just how flipping damn stupid are ''you''?