Also 7 phlip. [f. FLIP v.]
1. A smart stroke or blow, a fillip. Also fig.
1691. Locke, Toleration, III. iv. 105. A Phlip on the Forehead, or a Farthing Mulct, may be Penalty enough to bring Men to what you propose.
1818. Sporting Mag., III. Oct., 29/1. Cabbage sprained his wrist against the stakes, and Newton by a smart left-handed flip, drew the claret in profusion from his mouth.
1884. Besant, Dorothy Forster, II. xiv. 64. Your ladyship doth not know, I am sure, the rubs and flips which we poor women have to endure from harsh masters.
2. A sudden jerk or movement; a flash or flicker of light.
1821. D. Haggart, Life (ed. 2), 23. When turning towards the prad [i.e., horse], Barney made a very unceremonious flip at the bit.
1867. F. Francis, Angling, vi. (1880), 225. This sometimes will require seven or eight ‘flips’ or workings to effect, and it is, in windy or wet weather, about as trying work as any rod can be put to.
1873. G. C. Davies, Mount. & Mere, xiii. 98. The rabbits flit across in numbers, giving a derisive flip of their white tails as they seem to recognize the harmlessness of the fishing rods we carry.
1881. Blackmore, Christowell, xli. There was no rain yet; but flips of reflected lightning, here there and everywhere, shone upon the roadway, or flickered at the corner, or flitted behind some big tree, or black house.
fig. 1888. G. Moore, in Fortn. Rev., XLIII. Feb., 249. Madame Bovary, with the little pessimistic flip at the end of every paragraph, is the most personal of books.
3. = FILLIP sb. 3.
1881. Blackmore, Christowell, xlvii. Dash me, if I can think! I must have a flip to my system.
