headflip

plural headflips

1. A quick movement of the head that changes its orientation.

   She shrugged, popped her gum, straightened up with a little headflip.

   2012, James Axler, The Lost Scrolls

   3 more examples

   He executed a series of gulps and headflips, veritably flinging the meat down his throat.

   1945, Jean Devanny, Bird of Paradise, page 110

   Rubicon, fourteen, would often amuseus with his parlor tricks, with his handstands and footswings and headflips, but he was the only skilled among them.

   1996, Jacques Servin, Aviary Slag: Stories, page 116

   Already, those sperm snapped around like springs, also lashed their tails, did headflips and cartwheels, crowded one another, swam in circles, and generally postured like pent-up adolescents eager to be off.

   1999, John Vernon, “Origins”, in A Book of Reasons, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 237