Flip, FLIP, or flips may refer to:

People

Flip (nickname) As a nickname, Flip may refer to: * Flip Benham (born 1948), American evangelical Christian minister and anti-abortion leader * Flip Cornett (1957–2004), American funk guitarist and bassist * Andrew Filipowski Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski is ...

, a list of people *

Lil' Flip Wesley Eric Weston Jr. (born March 3, 1981), better known by his stage name Lil' Flip, is an American rapper. He embarked on his musical career as a freestyle and battle rapper before earning a record deal with Suckafree Records in 1999. Lil' F ...

(born 1981), American rapper *

Flip Simmons Flip Simmons is an Australian actor and musician. He is a graduate of St Edmund's College, Canberra & Brent Street – School of Performing Arts Notably, he has performed with artists such as George Benson, Josh Groban, John Farnham, Delta Goo ...

, Australian actor and musician *

Flip Wilson Clerow "Flip" Wilson Jr. (December 8, 1933 – November 25, 1998) was an American comedian and actor best known for his television appearances during the late 1960s and 1970s. From 1970 to 1974, Wilson hosted his own weekly variety series ''The F ...

, American comedian

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Flip (''Little Nemo''), a cartoon character * Flip, the title character of ''

Flip's Twisted World ''Flip's Twisted World'' is a platform game published by Majesco Entertainment and developed by Frozen North Productions for the Wii. The game was released on October 19, 2010 to the USA market. Gameplay ''Flip's Twisted World'' is a 3D puzzle p ...

'', a video game *

Flip the Frog Flip the Frog is an animated cartoon character created by American animator Ub Iwerks. He starred in a series of cartoons produced by Celebrity Pictures and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1930 to 1933. The series had many recurring char ...

, a cartoon character * Flip the grasshopper, a character in the children's book '' The Adventures of Maya the Bee''

Music

Flip Records (1950s) Flip Records was an American record label that flourished in the 1950s, releasing rhythm and blues and doo-wop music by such artists as Richard Berry, The Six Teens, Donald Wood, the Elgins, and many others. Max and Lilian Feirtag operated the l ...

, a rhythm and blues and doo-wop label based in Los Angeles *

Flip Records (1994) Flip Records is a Californian record label, started by Jordan Schur in April 1994. The label is known for the signing of popular nu metal bands such as Limp Bizkit, Dope and Cold. The label has sold 70 million albums worldwide. History Flip Re ...

, a record label in California * Flips, a short name of

The Flaming Lips The Flaming Lips are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The band currently consists of Wayne Coyne (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Steven Drozd (guitars, keyboards, bass, drums, vocals), Derek Brown (keyb ...

, an American rock band formed in 1983 * ''Flip'' (album), a 1985 solo album by Nils Lofgren * ''The Flip'' (album), a 1969 album by jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley

Business

* Flip or

Flipping Flipping is a term used to describe purchasing a revenue-generating asset and quickly reselling (or "flipping") it for profit. Within the real estate industry, the term is used by investors to describe the process of buying, rehabbing, and sell ...

, an American term for buying and reselling something quickly, particularly real estate * Flip Burger Boutique, a chain of gourmet hamburger restaurants in the southern United States *

Flip Skateboards Flip Skateboards is a United States-based international skateboard company, co-owned by Jeremy Fox and Ian Deacon. The company produces skateboard hard goods (decks, wheels, bearings, completes, and hardware), soft goods (T-shirts, tops, sweats ...

, a skateboard and clothing company

Events

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Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty The Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (International Literary Festival of Paraty- FLIP) is a literary festival held yearly since 2003 in the Brazilian city of Paraty, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The festival usually happens in early Ju ...

'', or ''FLIP'', an annual literary festival in Paraty, Brazil * ''

Festival Ludique International de Parthenay The ''Festival Ludique International de Parthenay'', otherwise known as the ''Festival de Jeux'' or ''FLIP'', is a games festival held in the town of Parthenay in western France. The festival is held over a period of 12 days in early July. Mos ...

'', or ''FLIP'', a games fair in Parthenay, France *

Flip Animation Festival FLIP is an animation festival primarily hosted by the Light House Media Centre in Wolverhampton, UK. It is one of two festivals hosted by Light House, the other of which is Deaffest. Official literature for the festival says that FLIP occurs ann ...

, Wolverhampton (UK) based international animation festival

Mathematics and statistics

Flip (mathematics) In algebraic geometry, flips and flops are codimension-2 surgery operations arising in the minimal model program, given by blowing up along a relative canonical ring. In dimension 3 flips are used to construct minimal models, and any two bira ...

, an operation in algebraic geometry *

Reflection (mathematics) In mathematics, a reflection (also spelled reflexion) is a mapping from a Euclidean space to itself that is an isometry with a hyperplane as a set of fixed points; this set is called the axis (in dimension 2) or plane (in dimension 3) of refle ...

, sometimes called flip, an operation that preserves distances *

Coin flip Coin flipping, coin tossing, or heads or tails is the practice of throwing a coin in the air and checking which side is showing when it lands, in order to choose between two alternatives, heads or tails, sometimes used to resolve a dispute betwe ...

, a coin toss with a 50/50 chance of "heads" or "tails"

Science and technology

Flip (form) The flip phone or clamshell is a form factor of a mobile phone or other device which is in two or more sections that fold via a hinge. If the hinge is on a long edge the device is more likely to be called clamshell than flip phone (e.g., No ...

, a hinged form factor for handheld electronic devices *

Fast Local Internet Protocol The Fast Local Internet Protocol (FLIP) is a communication protocol for LAN and WAN, conceived for distributed applications. FLIP was designed at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam to support remote procedure call (RPC) in the Amoeba distributed ...

, or FLIP, a suite of internet protocols * FLICE-like inhibitory protein (see CFLAR), protein involved in apoptosis *

Flip Video The Flip Video cameras were an American series of tapeless camcorders for digital video created by Pure Digital Technologies, a company bought by Cisco Systems in March 2009; variants included the UltraHD, the MinoHD, and the SlideHD. Flip Video ...

, a video camcorder *

Fluorescence loss in photobleaching Fluorescence Loss in Photobleaching (FLIP) is a fluorescence microscopy technique used to examine movement of molecules inside cells and membranes. A cell membrane is typically labeled with a fluorescent dye to allow for observation. A specific ar ...

, or FLIP, a microscopy technique * Freenet Lightweight Irc Program, or FLIP, a plugin for

Freenet Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free software for publishing and communicating on the Web ...

allowing irc-like chat *

RV FLIP R/P ''FLIP'' (''floating instrument platform'') is an open ocean research platform owned by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) and operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The platform is long and is designed to partially flood and ...

("Floating Instrument Platform"), a research vessel *

Functional Lumen Imaging Probe Functional Lumen Imaging Probe (FLIP) is a test used to evaluate the function of the esophagus, by measuring the dimensions of the esophageal lumen using impedance planimetry. Typically performed with sedation during upper endoscopy, FLIP is us ...

(FLIP) is a test used to evaluate the function of the esophagus *

Flip (software) Flip (formerly Flipgrid and originally Vidku) is a free-to-use video discussion platform owned by Microsoft for use in classroom environments. The platform is available via a web browser, or through a mobile app on iOS and Android devices. The s ...

, a video discussion platform by Microsoft for use in classrooms

Sports

Flip (acrobatic) An acrobatic flip is a sequence of body movements in which a person leaps into the air and then rotates one or more times while airborne. Acrobatic flips are performed in acro dance, free running, gymnastics, cheerleading, high jumping, trickin ...

, a leap followed by one or more revolutions while airborne *

Flip jump The flip jump (also called the flip) is a figure skating jump. The International Skating Union (ISU) defines a flip jump as "a toe jump that takes off from a back inside edge and lands on the back outside edge of the opposite foot".Media Guide, ...

, a figure skating element * "The Flip", a baseball play made in the 2001 American League Division Series by Derek Jeter

Other uses

Flip (cocktail) A flip is a class of mixed drinks. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term was first used in 1695 to describe a mixture of beer, rum, and sugar, heated with a red-hot iron ("Thus we live at sea; eat biscuit, and drink flip"). The i ...

Franklin Large Igneous Province The Franklin Large Igneous Province is a Neoproterozoic large igneous province in the Canadian Arctic of Northern Canada. It represents one of the largest large igneous provinces in Canada, consisting of the Natkusiak flood basalts on Victoria I ...

(FLIP), a large area of igneous rock in northern North America *

Flip page A flip page effect is a software GUI effect that visually shows a representation of a newspaper, book or leaflet as virtual paper pages that appear to be turned manually through computer animation. It is an alternative to scrolling pages. Flip p ...

, the visual effect of turning pages in digital publications * Flip hairstyle, a hairstyle popular in the 1960s * A

derogatory term A pejorative or slur is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or a disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something. It is also used to express criticism, hostility, or disregard. Sometimes, a ...

pertaining to Filipinos and Filipino-Americans * An American colloquialism for

turning state's evidence A criminal turns state's evidence by admitting guilt and testifying as a witness for the state against their associate(s) or accomplice(s), often in exchange for leniency in sentencing or immunity from prosecution.Howard Abadinsky, ''Organized C ...