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The return trip. You ran the load out, now you're flipping it for the run home. Drivers use it to plan meet-ups: "catch you on the flip-flop" means see you on the way back.

Setting a buy order low and a sell order high on the same item, pocketing the gap. It's quick — often resolved in minutes — and it's how players make gold without leaving the GE.

flight to safety

A flight to safety is a broad move by investors out of risky assets and into perceived safe havens during crises or turmoil, prioritizing capital preservation over returns. Bonds, gold, and the dollar typically benefit.

A staff member perceived as at risk of leaving the company.

A header or touch, usually from a long ball or throw, that redirects the ball onward for a teammate to run onto.

Confidently displaying an accomplishment or advantage.

flexible dieting

An approach with no banned foods where you can eat anything as long as it fits your daily protein, carb and fat targets, typically most calories from whole foods plus room for treats.

Spanglish verb meaning to show off or flaunt.

The state of an enemy after their shield's broken — every bullet now eats health directly. 'On flesh' is the green light to commit and close out the kill.

A sudden fright. The jolt you get when somebody jumps out at you. Also works as a verb — to fleg someone is to give them that jolt.

Fleabagging is the habit of consistently going for partners who are bad matches, chasing the same self-sabotaging romantic patterns.

A trick play in which the ball is handed to a running back who then tosses it back to the quarterback, who throws a pass downfield to fool the defense.

Afraid or terrified. A traditional Yorkshire dialect word.

A person you share a rented flat or house with.

A discipline of BMX performed on smooth flat ground, built from intricate balancing, rolling, and spinning tricks in awkward positions on the bike, without ramps or obstacles. It is often likened to breakdancing on a bike.

An ordinary uniformed police officer, especially one walking the beat. The joke is the flat feet you'd supposedly develop from pounding the pavement all day. Pure noir-era flavour now.

Half, especially half a coin such as a halfpenny ('flatch yennep'). From 'half' reshaped under back-slang into 'flatch', used constantly in market pricing and change.

A flat worker is a burglar who specializes in breaking into flats and dwellings, as opposed to shops or safes.

A coffee of espresso topped with steamed milk and a thin layer of microfoam; an Australasian invention now global.

flat out like a lizard drinking

Very busy or working as fast as possible; a play on a lizard flat to the ground while drinking.

Very busy; 'flat out like a lizard drinking' is an intensified version.

Going as fast as possible or working very hard.

A rented dwelling; 'flatting' is sharing a rented house, and 'flatmates' are housemates.

The instant a room full of heated combustibles all ignite at the same time. Radiant heat from the ceiling layer cooks every surface until they hit ignition temperature together — sofa, curtains, carpet, you, everything. Survival time after flashover is measured in seconds.