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Flipper

noun

A shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater). Synonym: fin.

The flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming.

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"Flipper" Quotes from Famous Books

... FLIPPER, the eldest of five brothers, and the subject of this narrative, was born in Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, on the 21st day of March, 1856. He and his mother were the property (?) of Rev. Reuben H. Lucky, a Methodist minister of ...

— Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point • Henry Ossian Flipper

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