Flipping

Flipping
Flip Flip, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flipped} (fl[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flipping}.] To become insane or irrational; -- often used with out; as, seeing her mother killed made the girl flip out. [PJC]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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