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Tipping vs Flipping - What's the difference?

tipping | flipping |

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 adverbs

tipping

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • flipping

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • A mild intensifier.
  • Where's my flipping watch?

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (euphemistic) Fucking;
  • Do you flipping think I'm stupid?
    Do you think I'm flipping stupid?
    Just how flipping damn stupid are ''you''?
    English degree adverbs

    Noun

    (wikipedia flipping) (-)
  • The practice of buying real estate, making improvements to it, and reselling it for a higher price.
  • English intensifiers