English
Etymology
back + flip
Pronunciation
Noun
backflip (plural backflips)
- (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.
- The gymnast performed a backflip on a trampoline.
- (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
- Courier Mail, 29 Jan 2007
- PM predicts water recycling backflips.
Translations
an act of rotating your body
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- Bulgarian: задно салто (zadno salto)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 後空翻／后空翻 (zh) (hòukōngfān), 后空翻 (zh) (hòukōngfān)
- Dutch: achterwaartse salto
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- Finnish: taaksepäinvoltti
- French: salto arrière (fr) m
- German: Backflip m, Rückwärtssalto m
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- Hungarian: hátraszaltó
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- Japanese: バク転 (bakuten)
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- Portuguese: salto mortal m
- Russian: са́льто (ru) n (sálʹto) наза́д (ru) (nazád)
- Swedish: bakåtvolt (sv) c
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total reversal in policy or opinion
Verb
backflip (third-person singular simple present backflips, present participle backflipping, simple past and past participle backflipped)
- To perform a backflip (rotation of body)
- To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
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