Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Flip n.

(US) a derog. name for a Filipino.

1932		P.G. Cressey Taxi-Dance Hall 100: Most of the white fellows won’t dance with me if they learn I go out with Flips.
1935		R. Chandler ‘Spanish Blood’ in Spanish Blood (1946) 32: Framed him for a few bindles of heroin from a slant-eyed Flip.
1947		N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 83: We was doin’ guys we never seen before even, Wallios ’n Greeks ’n a Flip from Clark Street.
1952		J. Jones From Here to Eternity (1998) 707: I’ve seen you mentally undress every young flip we pass on the street – even if we shoot past her at fifty in the car.
1969		J. Crumley One to Count Cadence (1987) 45: Just who the hell did the APs find under that Flip’s house.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 57: Perjoratives like [...] Flip for Filipino.
1997		Da Bomb Summer Supplement 6: Flip (n.) {Offensive, derogatory} A person of Filipino descent.
2000		F.X. Toole Rope Burns 172: Cannonball had bought it with money he made off a Filipino fighter [...] ‘Yeah, my baby flip boy done okay by me’.
2002		J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 166: ‘Yo, See-Oh! I’m Filipino — why the fuck you celling me up with some motherfucking punk-ass Micronesian’ [...] The C.O. tells him to shut the fuck up. ‘We got a shortage of flip cases this year,’ he explains.
2009		J. Stahl Pain Killers 166: ‘You speak Filipino?’ ‘Gang detail. I saw a lot of Flips’.
2018		Guardian 11 Aug. 4/1: She quotes the president as saying ‘F***ing Flip! Disloyal Fucking Goo-Goo’.

In compounds

Fliptown (n.)

(US) Manila.

1952

B. Appel Plunder (2005) 228: ‘Let’s see what’s coming into Fliptown, Captain.’.