flipar
verbInformal
A Peninsular Spanish slang term. Browse all Spanish slang.
What it means
To be amazed or blown away. Flipé con el concierto — the gig blew my mind.
Flipar en colores: an emphatic extension meaning to be utterly astonished.
To be deluded, in flipas or estás flipando — 'you're dreaming'.
Examples with translations
Flipé cuando vi el precio.
I couldn't believe it when I saw the price.
¿Trescientos euros? Tú flipas.
Three hundred euros? You're out of your mind.
Where it comes from
From English 'to flip', borrowed into Spanish in the 1970s. The negative sense — to be deluded — developed later and locally.