Flipper may refer to:

Common meanings

  • Flipper (anatomy), a forelimb of an aquatic animal, useful for steering and/or propulsion in water
  • Swimfins, footwear that boosts human swimming efficiency, also known as flippers
  • Flipper (cricket), a type of delivery bowled by a wrist spin bowler
  • Flipper (pinball), a part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball
  • A speculator who engages in flipping (buying and selling quickly)
  • Flipper (tool), used for flipping food over while cooking

Film and television

  • Flipper (franchise), a multimedia franchise about a bottlenose dolphin named Flipper
  • Flipper (1963 film)
  • Flipper's New Adventure (1964), sequel to the 1963 film
  • Flipper (1996 film), a remake of the 1963 film starring Paul Hogan and Elijah Wood
  • 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, one of the title characters of the Australian animated series Flipper & 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), first African-American cadet to graduate from West Point
  • Willie Flipper Anderson (born 1965), former National Football League wide receiver
  • Kirsten Flipkens (born 1986), Belgian tennis player
  • Leandro Ruiz Machado (born 1977), Brazilian water polo player
  • Carmen Milano (1929–2006), American disbarred lawyer and mobster

Other uses

  • Flipper (mascot), Miami Dolphins mascot from 1966 to 1968
  • Flipper (US dinghy), an American sailing dinghy design
  • Flipper (Danish dinghy), a Danish sailing dinghy design
  • Flipper (robot combat), a device used to flip over opposing robots
  • the ATI-produced Graphics Processing Unit chip used in the Nintendo GameCube videogame console

See also

  • Flip (disambiguation)