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The paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
Answer for the clue "The paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater) ", 8 letters:
flippers
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of flipper English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater) [syn: flipper , fin , fins ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
flippers \flippers\ n. flipper [By analogy with flipper[W13(1)], the limb of an aquatic animal used for locomotion] A type of shoe with a paddle-like front extending well beyond the end of the toe, used an aid in swimming (especially underwater). Note: ...
Usage examples of flippers.
Groups of human drivers and handlers leaned or sat on the hoods of flippers and chewed the fat.
A loose ring of slow moving drovers on their flippers kept them pinned down in the one spot.
Grounding their flippers, they had taken cover and appeared, at least for the moment, to be simply exchanging fire.
He risked a look over the edge of the trench and found that the drovers were dashing back towards the flippers that were still intact.
As you well know, those flippers don't travel by night, so it'll be a few days to make Fennella.
Whatever was happening at the other end of Nex Boulevard had plugged the normally constant flow of flippers and transports.
The police flippers were still maintaining their hovering positions above the marchers.
The lines of parked flippers were dimly illuminated by a few scattered glo-bars.
Most of the time they're completely tied up in posing and preening around their flippers, oblivious to the world.
They have photon cannons and the fastest, rough country flippers they could find in the city.
The young bucks would come by on their big flippers to court my sisters and half-sisters.
His hands and feet were in the form of flippers that sprouted directly from his torso without intervening arms or legs.
He stretched his bare hip flippers, flexing each of the elongated digits separately.
His face is pale and doesn't look as though it's connected to his body, which is golden, with slowly flexing flippers gleaming through the glass.
His flippers froze and he began to sink slowly with his face pressed into the speaking mask and his eyes close to the glass staring out.