hindflipper

noun

Etymology

From hind + flipper.

  1. inherited from filippen
  2. suffixed as flipper — “flip + er
  3. compounded as hindflipper — “hind + flipper

Definitions

  1. Either of the pair of hind flippers of a pinniped.

    • Coordinate term: foreflipper

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hindflipper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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