Synonyms for flipper
ˈflɪp ərflip·per

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1. flipper, finnoun

   a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)

   Synonyms:
   cinque, quint, five, tail fin, pentad, quintuplet, quintet, fin, fivesome, louvre, louver, tailfin

2. flippernoun

   the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming

   Synonyms:
   fin

Matched Categories

1. • Limb
   • Shoe

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1. List of paraphrases for "flipper":

   pinball, freak

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How to use flipper in a sentence?

1. Jeremy Goldbogen:

   First we have to find a blue whale, which can be very difficult because these animals range across vast swaths of the open ocean. By combining many years of field experience and some luck, we position a small, rigid-hulled, inflatable boat on the whale's left side, we then have to deploy the tag using a six-meter (20-foot) long carbon-fiber pole. As the whale surfaces to breathe, we tag the whale in a location that we think is closest to the heart: just behind the whale's left flipper.