flippy
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[edit]flippy (comparative flippier, superlative flippiest)
- (informal) Having a tendency to flip.
- 2012, Rebecca Snyder, Two Hearts Are Better Than One:
- And at that point I start to feel faint and my stomach starts doing that weird flippy thing.
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[edit]flippy (plural flippies)
- (computing) A flippy disk.
- 1989, Winn L. Rosch, The Winn Rosch Hardware Bible, page 512:
- Practical experience has shown the flippies are not a flawless or long-term solution. When a disk is flipped over, it turns in the opposite direction. In doing so, it bends the nap of the liner in the disk shell in the opposite direction […]