subs. (nautical and common).—1. The hand. TIP US YOUR FLIPPER = give me your hand. [From the flipper or paddle of a turtle.] For synonyms, see DADDLE and MAULEY.
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘A Lay of St. Gengulphus.’
| With those great sugar-nippers they nipped off his ‘FLIPPERS,’ | |
| As the Clerk, very flippantly, termed his fists. |
1884. Punch, 11 Oct. ‘’Arry at a Political Picnic.’ Old Bluebottle TIPPED ME HIS FLIPPER, and ’oped I’d ‘refreshed,’ and all that.
2. (common).—See FLAPPER.
3. (theatrical).—Part of a scene, hinged and painted on both sides, used in trick changes.
