Flipper

Flipper may refer to:

Common meanings

• Flipper (anatomy), a forelimb of an aquatic animal, useful for steering and/or propulsion in water
• Alternate name for a swimfin, footwear that boosts human swimming efficiency
• Flipper (pinball), a part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball
• A speculator who engages in flipping (buying and selling quickly)

Film and television

• Flipper (1963 film), about a bottlenose dolphin named Flipper
• Flipper (1964 TV series), an adaptation of the 1963 film which originally ran from 1964 to 1967
• Flipper (1995 TV series), a revival of the 1964 series which ran from 1995 to 2000
• Flipper (1996 film), a remake of the 1963 film starring Paul Hogan and Elijah Wood
• Flipper, one of the title characters of the Australian animated series Flipper and Lopaka

Music

• Die Flippers, a German Schlager group
  • Die Flippers (album), the group's first studio album, released in 1970
• Flipper (band), a punk band from San Francisco, California
• Flipper, a former member of the lesbian punk band Tribe 8

Military

• Operation Flipper, a British World War II commando raid with the goal of assassinating Erwin Rommel
• Flipper, NATO reporting name of the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152A Soviet fighter aircraft
• M138 "Flipper" portable mine layer - see GEMSS mine system

People

• Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940), the first African-American cadet to graduate from West Point
• Willie Flipper Anderson (born 1965), former National Football League wide receiver
• nickname of Kirsten Flipkens (born 1986), Belgian tennis player
• nickname of Leandro Ruiz Machado (born 1977), Brazilian water polo player
• nickname of Carmen Milano (1929–2006), American disbarred lawyer and mobster

Other uses

• Flipper (cricket), a type of delivery bowled by a wrist spin bowler
• Flipper (mascot), Miami Dolphins mascot from 1966 to 1968
• Flipper (robot combat), a device used to flip over opposing robots
• nickname for a spatula (cooking instrument)
• nickname for a television remote control
• nickname for a temporary removable partial denture
• nickname for a temporary removable dental veneer ("pageant flippers")
• nickname for a malasada, a fried dough pastry popular on Cape Cod
• the ATI-produced Graphics Processing Unit chip used in the Nintendo GameCube videogame console