# If I told you I "Flipped a bitch" would you know what I was talking about? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 31, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784 "2011-08-31T21:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/21 "2011-08-31T22:13:09Z")
Never heard it. We’ve always used “hang a u-ey” or “flip a u-ey.” (Grew up & learned to drive in Colorado, lived in California and Montana since then) ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/22 "2011-08-31T22:24:55Z")
Damn! I was sure it meant “pulled out a gat to lay a bitch out flat.” We (back in NJ, USA) used “pull a u-ie” too. But that pales in comparison to “whip a shitty.” Now _that_ is one nice phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/23 "2011-08-31T22:28:43Z")
I would have thought it was akin to ‘pitching a hissy.’ ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/24 "2011-08-31T22:37:41Z")
I thought this had something to do with pimps “turning out” girls. As far as I know, it’s not a common expression in my neck of the woods. Bri2k ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/25 "2011-08-31T22:39:31Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:21, topic:594784”] Never heard it. We’ve always used “hang a u-ey” or “flip a u-ey.” [/QUOTE] “Chucking a u-ey” is the more common version here. I’ve never heard the OP’s version. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/26 "2011-08-31T22:43:52Z")
P.S. - I’m loving ‘whippin’ a shitty.’ I am going to use it at the next available opportunity. Even if I don’t need to flip a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/27 "2011-08-31T22:45:16Z")
U-turn. I first heard in when I was in college in San Diego in the 80s. ETA: Hang a U-ey was probably more common. ---
**Author:** ![loshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/28 "2011-08-31T23:01:52Z")
Grew up in Texas in a time long ago. Flipping a bitch = illegal u-turn Bitch Flip = a hairstyle involving turned up ends ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/29 "2011-08-31T23:06:00Z")
As in ‘that hirsute bitch has got some wicked style.’ ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/30 "2011-08-31T23:18:10Z")
I knew it was a car-related term, but I wasn’t sure exactly what. I thought “whipping shitties” was equal to “doing donuts”. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/31 "2011-08-31T23:28:45Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > “Chucking a u-ey” is the more common version here. I’ve only heard “pulled a u-ey” or “made a u-ey”. I would have guessed “flipped a bitch” to mean “had sex with a girl”. ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/32 "2011-08-31T23:35:59Z")
Hangin’ a Uie is done politely while obeying the rules of the road. Flippin’ a Bitch implies a sense of tire-squealing urgency, if we have to flip a bitch, shit just got real. In a similar vein, is there a practical difference between doughnuts and brodies? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/33 "2011-08-31T23:44:39Z")
Do you want more people to keep posting saying “Never heard of it”? Maybe you should have made it a poll. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/34 "2011-08-31T23:47:48Z")
I don’t hear it too often in Arizona, but I do use it occasionally. Never knew it implied an _illegal_ u-turn and when I use it I use it to refer to a u-turn of any kind. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/35 "2011-08-31T23:54:21Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Do you want more people to keep posting saying “Never heard of it”? Maybe you should have made it a poll. Probably. Too late now, though. And what more people? I see a lot of people knowing what it is, too. : p ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/36 "2011-08-31T23:57:21Z")
By my count: People who had never heard of it before: 18 People who knew what it referred to in some way or another: 11 ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/37 "2011-09-01T00:05:55Z")
My daughter and her friends (2001 WA state high school grads) all say ‘flip a bitch’ for this activity (whether legal or illegal). I, of course, use the correct term of ‘hanging a u-ey’. My daughter used to live in Federal Way (WA), where there are lots of legal u-turns. Directions from her were so colorful: get on street X then flip a bitch, go down street to next intersection and turn right, then flip a bitch at the next light, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/38 "2011-09-01T00:09:48Z")
I have never heard this term used in reference to driving. I would have assumed you meant that you (perhaps acting with the aid of other members of your gang) turned a weaker prisoner in your cell block into your “woman.” ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/39 "2011-09-01T00:10:23Z")
I had never heard it before reading this thread. I guessed it was something along the lines of, but slightly less offensive than, flipping someone the bird. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-told-you-i-flipped-a-bitch-would-you-know-what-i-was-talking-about/594784/40 "2011-09-01T00:12:27Z")
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