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Flipper may refer to:
In entertainment:
- Film and television series featuring the intelligent bottlenose dolphin named Flipper:
- Flipper (1963 film), directed by James B. Clark
- Flipper's New Adventure, a 1964 film directed by Leon Benson
- Flipper (1964 TV series), which originally ran from 1964-1967
- Flipper (1995 TV series), including Jessica Alba
- Flipper (1996 film), a 1996 film starring Elijah Wood as the main character, Sandy
- Flipper and Lopaka, a 2001 Australian animated TV series, with additional stories made in 2005
- Flipper (band), a punk band from San Francisco
- Die Flippers, a German Schlager group
People:
- Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940), the first African American cadet to graduate from West Point
- Flipper Anderson, former National Football League wide receiver
- nickname of Brazilian water polo player Leandro Ruiz Machado
- nickname of American mobster Carmen Milano
Other uses
- Flipper (anatomy), a limb on some animals
- A speculator who engages in flipping (buying and selling quickly)
- A scuba diver's swimfin
- A part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball
- Another name for a pinball machine in Germany, France or Italy
- Flipper, the name of the ATi-produced Graphics Processing Unit chip used in the Nintendo GameCube videogame console
- Flipper (cricket), a type of delivery bowled by a wrist spin bowler
- A hiker that skips a section of a long distance trail to hike later in the season
- Flipper, also known as a malasada, a fried dough pastry popular on Cape Cod
- Another name for the spatula cooking instrument
- A slang term for removable partial dentures
- Operation Flipper, a British World War II commando raid with the goal of assassinating Erwin Rommel
- Another word for a television remote.
- Larry the Cable Guy's term for a homosexual.
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