Verb

To throw (as in to turn over).

You need to flip the pancake onto the other side.

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To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.

If you can't decide which option to go for, flip a coin.

(slang) To go berserk or crazy.

I'd flip if anyone broke my phone.

To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.

(computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.

Verb

To pay (a debt, fine etc.).

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Enkindle all the sparks of nature / To quit this horrid act.

*(Edward Fairfax) (c.1580-1635)

*:that judge that quits each soul his hire

To repay (someone) for (something).

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*:I was but late att a Iustynge / and there I Iusted with a knyghte that is broder vnto kynge Pellam / and twyes smote I hym doune / & thenne he promysed to quyte me on my best frynde / and so he wounded my sone that can not be hole tyll I haue of that knyghtes blood

(obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).

*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:

*:Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, / With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight ?

To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).

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*:Be strong and quit' yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: ' quit yourselves like men, and fight.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Samson hath quit himself like Samson.

To carry through; to go through to the end.

*(Samuel Daniel) (1562-1619)

*:Never worthy prince a day did quit / With greater hazard and with more renown.

(label) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.

*(William Wake) (1657-1737)

*:To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?

(label) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.

(label) To abandon, renounce (a thing).

(label) To leave (a place).

To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).

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To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).

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To close (an application).

(quit)