flip phone

See also: flip-phone

English

a flip phone

Alternative forms

• flip-phone

Etymology

A genericized trademark of the company Motorola for their clamshell-form mobile phones

Noun

flip phone (plural flip phones)

1. A mobile telephone with a hinged top that is flipped open when the phone is in use.
   • 1992 Sept. 3, "‘Ages’ takes time to look at signposts of life at 40" (review of TV show Middle Ages), Washington Times (retrieved 18 August 2013):

     Brian (Kyle Secor) tells the salesman they'll be phasing out fridges and freezers for faxes and flip phones.

   • 2000 April 3, “Contents: Cellular Browsing”, in Time, retrieved 18 August 2013:

     Motorola's new flip phone doubles as a modem for your laptop.

   • 2008 December 31, Bob Tedeschi, “With a Little Help, You Can Trade Yourself Free of Your Wireless Contract”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 August 2013:

     They just will not help you do the hard work of finding someone who actually wants your contract and the vintage flip phone that came with it.

Hyponyms

• clamshell phone

Coordinate terms

• bar phone
• slide phone / slider phone
• brick phone

Derived terms

• flip smartphone

Translations

mobile telephone with a hinged top that is flipped open

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 翻蓋手機／翻盖手机 (fāngài shǒujī), 折疊式手機／折叠式手机 (zhédiéshì shǒujī)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: läppäpuhelin; simpukkapuhelin (fi) (technically more specifically clamshell)
• French: téléphone à clapet m
• German: Klapphandy (de) n
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ទូរស័ព្ទ​បត់ (tuurĕəʼsap-bɑt)
• Russian: раскладу́шка-телефо́н f (raskladúška-telefón), телефо́н-раскладу́шка m (telefón-raskladúška)
• Swedish: viktelefon c, flipptelefon c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kapaklı telefon

See also

• Thesaurus:phone

References

• “flip phone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.