flip v.4
1. (US drugs) to become unconscious through an overdose of a drug.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Down Beat 17 Nov. n.p.: One of the five top tenor sax stars has flipped. | |
| Traffic In Narcotics 308: flip. To become unconscious from an overdose of drugs. |
2. (orig. US, also flit, pliff) to lose control, to get over-excited or very worried; often ext. in phr. flip one’s cork/frijoles/noodle/raspberry/stack.
| letter 30 Dec. in Joint (1972) 29: If I made a Thing of it and let it drag me, I really would flip. | |
| (con. 1920s) Schnozzola 61: I’m so scared one of them fellows some of these nights is goin’ to get liquor in him, or flit or somethin’, and he’ll shoot this fellow Harris between his eyes. | |
| Rap Sheet 192: He was gone. Flipped-off. Plumb stir-looney. | |
| Always Leave ’Em Dying 25: I figured she was the type to flip good if she flipped. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Absolute Beginners 210: I said he’s pliffed, boy! | |
| Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window in Three Negro Plays (1969) I ii: If that babe doesn’t hurry up and get herself back here – like I could flip. | |
| Executioner (1973) 152: Maybe they’ve flipped. Combat fatigue. | |
| Of Minnie the Moocher and Me 70: Betty and I nearly flipped. | |
| Fixx 291: Good God, it was obvious [...] The woman had flipped. | |
| (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 37: Only Big H flipped his switch. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Lockie Leonard, Legend (1998) 73: Your mother used to eat flies and Nan didn’t flip. | |
| Fortress of Solitude 431: Dose flipped, a year’s accumulated fear brimming in him. | |
| Drawing Dead [ebook] You’ve fucking flipped kid. Unhinged. | |
| Guardian G2 3 July 13/1: The backstory about Ilya ‘flipping’ because Holmes had kissed somebody else [...] is missing. |
3. to excite (sexually).
| Mad mag. June 46: Flipped me – hipped me with some weirdo dreams. | |
| Candy (1970) 153: Flipped him completely, you dig? | |
| Kings Road 89: Take a look at the local bird life [...] No wonder they’ve flipped over us! | |
 | Brother Ray 166: I’ve had an Olds, a Mercedes, and a Volkswagen—all at different times. But nothing has flipped me like that 1960 Cadillac. | |
| Airtight Willie and Me 198: She was [...] flipping car tricks at sunset and La Brea. |
4. to be sexually excited.
| Big Rumble 58: Who makes ya flip? | |
| Giveadamn Brown (1997) 88: ‘She’s raving [...] She flipped over Harry Brown’. |
5. to become drunk.
| Big Rumble 74: Thanks for the party, Claw. We really flipped that night. |
6. (US black) to start an argument, to fight, esp. with an intimate.
| ‘Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa’ 🎵 You shouldn’t flip on him ’cause Dill’s really cool. | |
| et al. A2Z 36/1: They was about to flip when the police drove by. | |
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 flip Definition: [...] 2. to start beef with someone, usually a friend or someone you know. [...] Example 2: I tol that nigga if he don’t got my dough I’ma gonna flip on his ass. |
7. see flip out v. (5)
In phrases
(orig. US) to become fascinated, obsessed by.
| Hepster’s Dict. 4: Flip – To react enthusiastically. | |
| Beat Generation 120: Jester used to knock himself out, trying to score with the Pad chicks who didn’t flip for him. | |
| Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window in Three Negro Plays (1969) I i: Remember – he really flipped for my Liat! | |
| Maledicta III:2 232: He also may or may not know the following words and expressions: [...] flip over (while flip = fall for and flip-flop = exchange roles and flop = go soft or fail). | |
| Brown’s Requiem 94: Anyway, I just flipped for it. | |
| Awaydays 56: She met Dad at The Grafton and, an unlikely combination of mildness and madness, they just flipped for each other. |
see under jib n.1
see under bananas adj.
see under bean n.1
see under cookie n.1
(US) to lose one’s temper; to go mad.
| ‘Die Hard’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 24: You’ve flipped your cork, Cannon. | |
| Pimp 128: He flipped his cork. He forced me to split. |
see under lid n.
to excite sexually.
| Silent Terror 112: ‘Maybe your switch gets flipped by boys now’. |
(US black) to go crazy, to lose one’s temper; thus fliptop adj., crazy; as n., a crazy person.
| Battle Creek Inquirer (MI) 31 July 1/5: ‘Art, Art has flipped his top, / The saucer he saw was under a coffee cup’. | |
| Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 98: I could never push that bunch of fliptops and professional misfits into a working group. [Ibid.] 107: In a word, man, he is insane. A fliptop cop. | |
| Pimp 286: You’re flipping your top. | |
| ‘S.H.E.’ 🎵 But I flipped my top, when she set that butter skin on my lap. | |
| posting at davesgarden.com 🌐 My water bill was horrendous this month and DH flipped his top but its not my fault the weather didn’t cooperate. |
see under wig n.2
see separate entries.