Then a whistle blows, the two teams congregate in the center of the field, the opposing captains flip a coin, the referee, a Yates College man, utters a few words of warning, and the teams separate, St. Eustace taking the ball and the home team choosing the northern goal.

cool, flip one's lid, hit the ceiling, hit the roof; fly into a rage (anger) 900. break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode^, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, crump^, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break open, force open, prize open.

" "I've already promised you that," said Crewe, flipping another sovereign from his sovereign case and handing it to Taylor, "and I'll give you five shillings for the glove.

He shakes it open saying: 'See that ten and raise you ten more.' I look over his shoulder as he flips up his cards.

Rush, in and out of his chair a dozen times, to flip the ash from his cigarette, to light one for Mary, to hand the strawberries round again, was tugging at his moorings like a captive balloon.

"She made some joke at me as she passed into the factory, and flipped a cassia flower just between my eyes.

The rearward end flipped ten feet in the air and thirty feet sidewise.

Charming Billy, his face quite pale, turned his head cautiously as though he feared too abrupt a glance would drive her away, and looked at her standing there with her gray felt hat tilted against the sun, flipping her gloves nervously against her skirt.

There are such things as knife throwing, I know, but it takes a fast wrist to flip a knife faster than a bullet.

She is absorbed in a book of the softer sort, and she flips its pages against her lap-dog's nose.

" He spoke with a stifled voice, wrenching forth each sentence; and now with a stiff forefinger flipped a paper across the table.

"You know very well that Grundy flipped a pen full of ink over me, and that was why I had to go out and wash my face." "I know you looked altogether a different fellow when you came back," returned Jack Vance: "I hardly knew you!"

" He flipped the purse across to her and sauntered into his bedroom.

But in the crisis, automatically Donnegan flipped his useless revolver out of its holster and into his hand.

With the thumb of the hand in which he held the marshal's gun the Ramblin' Kid threw open the breech and flipped the shells on the ground.

Then he darts out, seizes one, and returns to the same perch, flipping the tail, raising the little crest, and calling 'Phoebep-h-o-e-b-e,' in a very anxious voice.

She rolled her well-shaped ankles and flipped the gilt tassels on her shoe tops to and fro (yes, indeed, some women wore tasseled footgear in those days).

Of course, I have nosed my way with pleasure along aristocratic shelves and flipped out volumes here and there to ask their price, but for the greater part, it is the plainer shops that engage me.

He didn't fidget this time, nor walk over to look at maps and time-tables, nor flip out his watch every other minute with such a bored air that everybody knew he was seeing me off just as a duty.

"Yes, that's right," Old Heck agreed, "there's germs and so on in them!" as he flipped the water from his own brush, dried his lips on his shirtsleeve and turned back into the kitchen.

[Coll.], flip one's wig

When he knows that he is seen, he will flip his wings and flirt his tail, like suddenly opening and shutting a fan, as he flits on before you with his head on one side, giving the pert call 'Towhee!

He stopped under the trees, apparently having found a seat of some kind, although I could see nothing except the tip of the burning cigar, as he flipped aside the ashes.

[Coll.], flip one's bush [Coll.].

He gave a nod with his head and Kansas Shorty flipped the dollar high into the air, and when it fell to the ground the eagle showed up on top, and Kansas Shorty went over to Jim, who seemed to him somewhat more tractable then his brother Joe, and more suited for his purposes.