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flip-flop
verb- to change positions on a political issue or issues in response to changing public opinion US, 1965
- A day after a top administration official announced the National Office of AIDS Policy had become obsolete, President Bush flipflopped and said he was keeping the office open. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. A3, 8 February 2001
- In just the last few weeks, for example, the Bush administration flip-flopped on a campaign promise to limit carbon-dioxide emissions[.] — Daily Sun, 31 March 2001
- The Bush Administration has flip-flopped on North Korea. — Time Magazine, p. 38, 28 October 2002
- She said President Bush had flipflopped on America’s global role: “For a man who said it was not our job to police the world, he seems to be pretty at ease with this.” — USA Today, p. 12A, 21 March 2003
- I could tick off five or six things on which George W. Bush is a flip-flopper, on enormously important issues: Homeland Security Department, 9/11 Commission, abortion itself, George W. Bush flip-flopped. — News from CNN, 5 November 2004
- (used of two homosexuals) to reverse sexual roles after sexual satisfaction is achieved by the active partner US
- Many snide remarks would be passed to the effect that they were most probably “flipflopping,” another way of saying that they were interchanging their roles in the sex act. — New York Mattachine Newsletter, p. 7, July 1961
- to have sex with both men and women US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 59, 1992
- (used of two homosexuals) to reverse sexual roles US
- It’s hard to tell who’s doing what. You’d be surprised. Some of it that you would swear is strictly aggressive type is what they call flip-flop. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 393, 1972
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