flip off

verb

flipped off; flipping off; flips off

transitive verb

: to hold up the middle finger as an obscene gesture of contempt to
flipped off the other driver

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That is probably a bigger threat to Bondi’s tenure than a single woman flipping off a group of armed soldiers. Andrew Binns, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Of the roiling mass of restless natives, cranky artists and tattered idealists who rose up across the Southland this summer to flip off darkness and call America back to its better angels? John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025 Jim Marshall, the legendary photographer behind some of music’s most iconic images — including Johnny Cash flipping off the camera at San Quentin and Dylan strolling through Greenwich Village — was one of the few granted the Grateful Dead’s trust. Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025 The golf cart flipped off the edge of a stone wall and landed in the lake, but the three teenagers were able to stand on top of the cart in the water, Campbell said. Saleen Martin, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flip off

Word History

First Known Use

1982, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of flip off was in 1982

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“Flip off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flip%20off. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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