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Flipping
- verb - cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation; "switch on the light"; "throw the lever"
- cause to move with a flick; "he flicked his Bic"
- go mad, go crazy; "He flipped when he heard that he was being laid off"
- lightly throw to see which side comes up; "I don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!"
- look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
- move with a flick or light motion
- react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way; "he flipped when he heard that he was accepted into Princeton University"
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper"
- toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse; "flip over the pork chop"; "turn over the pancakes"
Flirting
- verb - behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection"
- playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"
Flitting
- verb - move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The hummingbird flitted among the branches"
Floatier
- adjective - tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas; "buoyant balloons"; "buoyant balsawood boats"; "a floaty scarf"
Floating
- verb - (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position; "floating ribs are not connected with the sternum"; "a floating kidney"
- allow (currencies) to fluctuate; "The government floated the ruble for a few months"
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
- borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"
- circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"
- continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
- convert from a fixed point
Flocking
- verb - come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer"
- move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"
Flogging
- verb - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
- beat with a cane
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- Sell (slang)
- Whipped
Flooding
- verb - a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
- become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
- cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
- supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
Flooring
- verb - building material used in laying floors
- knock down with force; "He decked his opponent"
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
- the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent"