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🥞 To turn over 🔥 Very 🏠 To sell quickly
to flippin

to flippin

8.8
Buy and sell something quickly to make money
  • verb
  • /ˈflɪpɪn/
  • Jargon
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  • Investors often make a lot of money by flipping properties in hot real estate markets.

So I was going to start flipping houses in Ybor City.

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Examples

  • So I was going to start flipping houses in Ybor City.

    Lex Fridman

  • OK, learning how to flip a house is one thing.

  • I maybe would flip these two, but I understand why.

  • Is there a better way though, to build wealth beyond sitting around and constantly trying to flip properties or wholesale real estate?

  • What was the idea of it was flipping houses, which I've done.

  • Like you just got to have your backup plan with flipping Airbnb.

  • I was selling lemonade, shoveling snow, selling baseball cards, flipping stuff at garage sales.

    GaryVee

  • She's been flipping houses for years, always looking for a quick profit.

  • After carefully renovating the old house, they managed to flip it and earn a substantial profit.

Antonyms

to hold onto
180 3.0

To keep something and not let it go

How Quickly

to flippin
  • Jargon
8.8
to resell
22 2.3

Surface Forms

flippin infinitive
flipped past
flipped past participle
flippin' present participle
flippins third person singular

Morphology

flippin = flip (semi-transparent) = flip + ing

Built from 'flip' + -ing but specialized to mean 'to buy and resell quickly for profit' in the real-estate context, which is a figurative extension not directly predictable from 'flip'.

Etymology

Flippin The verb flippin in buying and selling comes from flip, which means 'to turn'. People use it for turning things into cash fast, so to flip a house is to buy it and sell it quickly for a profit.