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Flipper may refer to: In '''entertainment''':
- Film and television series featuring the intelligent bottlenose dolphin named Flipper:
    - Flipper (1963 film)|''Flipper'' (1963 film), directed by James B. Clark
    - ''Flipper's New Adventure'', a 1964 film directed by Leon Benson
    - Flipper (1964 TV series)|''Flipper'' (1964 TV series), which originally ran from 1964-1967
    - Flipper (1995 TV series)|''Flipper'' (1995 TV series), including Jessica Alba
    - Flipper (1996 film)|''Flipper'' (1996 film), a 1996 film starring Elijah Wood as the main character, Sandy
    - ''Flipper and Lopaka'', a 2001 Australian animated TV series, with additional stories made in 2005
- Flipper (band), a punk band from San Francisco
- Die Flippers, a German Schlager group
People:
- Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940), the first African American cadet to graduate from West Point
- Flipper Anderson, former National Football League wide receiver
- nickname of Brazilian water polo player Leandro Ruiz Machado
Other uses
- Flipper (anatomy), a limb on some animals
- A speculator who engages in Flipping (buying and selling quickly)
- A scuba diver's swimfin
- A part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball
- Another name for a pinball machine in Germany, France or Italy
- Nintendo_Gamecube#Technical_specifications|Flipper, the name of the ATi-produced Graphics Processing Unit chip used in the Nintendo GameCube videogame console
- Flipper (cricket), a type of delivery bowled by a wrist spin bowler
- A hiker that skips a section of a long distance trail to hike later in the season
- Flipper, also known as a malasada, a fried dough pastry popular on Cape Cod
- Another name for the spatula cooking instrument
- A slang term for removable partial dentures
- Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes#Operation Flipper|Operation Flipper, a British World War II commando raid with the goal of assassinating Erwin Rommel
- A remote control for the television.

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