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Meanings of flippers in English

Russian
ласты
Portuguese
barbatanas
Spanish
aletas de rana
Catalan
aletes de busseig
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Finlike accessories worn on the foot, used for swimming, snorkeling and diving propulsion.

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        Usage of flippers in English
        1
        But Halichoerus grypus may not rest too easily on those flippers yet.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Shed my flippers and flexed the toes of the rubber boots underneath.
        Woken furies
        3
        Don made a note of the mother's number, stencilled just behind the flippers.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
        4
        It has but two flippers, and these are set in at the shoulders.
        The Burgess Animal Book for Children
        5
        A couple of left-handed pan-cake flippers will be working in Childs window soon.
        The new yorker
        6
        Same flippers, same targets as all the others, but something's different.
        Pinball, 1973
        7
        Delphin flexed his flippers, which he thought made him look intimidating.
        Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
        8
        He could hardly take a step, his flippers slowed him down so much.
        Wastelands
        9
        I feel like that's asking me did you ever want flippers for feet.
        The new yorker
        10
        We were frogmen, navy SEALs, Ros's flippers doing most of the hard work.
        Brains: a zombie memoir
        11
        Ross fastened on his flippers and lowered his body into the narrow stream.
        Key Out of Time
        12
        The big animal lay bottom side up, vainly moving its flippers.
        Under the Ocean to the South Pole; Or, the Strange Cruise of the...
        13
        Ross stripped off his flippers, made them fast in his belt.
        Key Out of Time
        14
        They stand in places marked by miniature frog flippers painted on the blacktop.
        The warrior elite: the forging of seal class 228
        15
        The seacopter surfaced again, while the boys donned flippers, masks, and air lungs.
        Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
        16
        Notice the flightless wings turned into flippers, which are often flapped very vigorously.
        The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) / A Plain Story Simply Tol...
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