Backflip Definition

băkflĭp

backflipped, backflipping, backflips

verb

To perform a backward somersault, especially in the air.

American Heritage

To perform or complete a backflip.

Webster's New World

To perform a backflip (rotation of body)

Wiktionary

To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.

Wiktionary

noun

A backward somersault.

American Heritage

A backward somersault, dive, or jump.

Webster's New World

An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

The acrobat performed a backflip on a trampoline.

Wiktionary

(by extension) A total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, an U-turn.

PM predicts water recycling backflips. Courier Mail, 29 Jan 2007

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Backflip

Singular:

backflip

Plural:

backflips

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