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Flip-flop   /flɪp-flɑp/   Listen
Flip-flop

noun
1.
A decision to reverse an earlier decision.  Synonyms: change of mind, reversal, turnabout, turnaround.
2.
A backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe.  Synonym: thong.
3.
An electronic circuit that can assume either of two stable states.
4.
A backward somersault.
verb
1.
Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action).  Synonyms: alternate, flip, interchange, switch, tack.





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"Flip-flop" Quotes from Famous Books



... worst bother. His mother was a long-footed woman, and the toes of the boots sailed ahead of Chippy's feet, and turned up, after the style of the boots of the Middle Ages, as depicted in history-books, and went flip-flop-flap before him as he walked. And so Chippy had come to visit the Wolf Patrol as a friend and ...
— The Wolf Patrol - A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts • John Finnemore


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