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 (born 1950), Polish-American techno ...

, a list of people *

Lil' Flip Wesley Eric Weston Jr. (born 3 March 1981), better known by his stage name Lil' Flip, is an American rapper. Raised in Houston, Texas, he began his musical career as a freestyle and battle rapper before signing with the local record label Sucka ...

(born 1981), American rapper * Flip Simmons, 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 ...

, American comedian

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Flip (''Little Nemo''), a cartoon character * Flip, the title character of '' Flip's Twisted World'', 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 cha ...

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

Music

* Flip Records (1950s), a rhythm and blues and doo-wop label based in Los Angeles * Flip Records (1994), 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, guitars, bass, keyboards), Steven Drozd (guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, vocals), Derek Brown ...

, 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 * "Flip", by Barenaked Ladies from '' Detour de Force''

Business

* Flip or

Flipping In finance, flipping is purchasing an asset to quickly resell (or "flip") it for profit. Within the real estate industry, the term is used by investors to describe the process of buying, rehabbing, and selling properties for profit. In 2017, 207, ...

, 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, 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'', or ''FLIP'', a games fair in Parthenay, France * Flip Animation Festival, Wolverhampton (UK) based international animation festival

Mathematics and statistics

* Flip (mathematics), 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 the set of fixed points; this set is called the axis (in dimension 2) or plane (in dimension 3) of r ...

, sometimes called flip, an operation that preserves distances *

Coin flip Coin flipping, coin tossing, or heads or tails is using the thumb to make a coin go up while spinning in the air and checking which side is showing when it is down onto a surface, in order to randomly choose between two alternatives. It is a for ...

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

Science and technology

Flip (form) Clamshell design is a form factor commonly used in the design of electronic devices and other manufactured objects. It is inspired by the morphology of the clam. The form factor has been applied to handheld game consoles, mobile phones (wh ...

, 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 CASP8 and FADD-like apoptosis regulator is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''CFLAR'' gene In biology, the word gene has two meanings. The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity. The molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotide ...

), protein involved in apoptosis *

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

, a video camcorder *

Fluorescence loss in photobleaching Fluorescence Loss in Photobleaching (FLIP) is a fluorescence microscope, 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 o ...

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

Freenet Hyphanet (until mid-2023: Freenet) is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, Anonymity application, anonymous communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free soft ...

allowing irc-like chat * ("Floating Instrument Platform"), an oceanic 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) was a free-to-use video discussion platform bought by Microsoft for use in classroom environments. The platform was available via a web browser, or through a mobile app on iOS and Android devices. ...

, a video discussion platform by Microsoft for use in classrooms * FLIP =

, c-Fas-associated death domain-like interleukin-1-converting enzyme-like inhibitory protein

Sports

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

, a leap followed by one or more revolutions while airborne * Flip jump, a figure skating element * "The Flip", a baseball play made in the

2001 American League Division Series The 2001 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the American League side in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 2001 postseason, began on Tuesday, October 9, and ended on Monday, October 15, with the champions of the three AL ...

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. The iron causes the drink to froth, and this frothing ...

* Franklin Large Igneous Province (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 ...

, the visual effect of turning pages in digital publications * Flip hairstyle, a hairstyle popular in the 1960s * A derogatory term pertaining to Filipinos and Filipino-Americans * An American colloquialism for turning state's evidence