Home › Words › T › tailfliptailfliptailflip means A movement used by crustaceans to escape predators, involving rapid abdominal flexions that propel the creature backwards through the water.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, tailflip ranks #3,412 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom tail + flip.nounA movement used by crustaceans to escape predators, involving rapid abdominal flexions that propel the creature backwards through the water.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).