flip around

to turn end for end, all the way around, quickly. The alligator flipped around and hissed at us. The kitten flipped around and pounced on my hand.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Gerolamo	-	Italian
Hikari	hee-kah-ṙee	Japanese
Kunegunda	kuw-ne-GUWN-dah	Polish
Lucien	-	French
Friedrich	FREED-rikh	German
Piers	PEERZ (English), PEERS (English)	English (British), Medieval French