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flipflop
noun- a sandal that is not bound to the foot, usually worn around a swimming pool US, 1970
From the sound made when walking on concrete. - Blew out my flip flop, stepped on a pop-top/ Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home. — Jimmy Buffett, Margaritaville, 1977
- She will take black spikes or Capezios or even foam-rubber flip-flops. — Hunter S. Thompson, A Generation of Swine, p. 109, 28 April 1986
- The dozen or so trustees who had run of the place and were walking around in T-shirts, drawstring gym pants and rubber flip-flops. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 96, 1992
- “If my nine wasn’t drying out,l” Fortney said to the lifeguards, “I’d blast you moondoggies right outta your flip-flops.” — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 83, 1996
- [T]he Hunk of the Week competition, in which half-cut men in football shirts and flip-flops had to prove their worth[.] — Iain Aitch, A Fete Worse Than Death, p. 286, 2003
- a return journey US
- We’ll catch you on the flip-flop. — C.W. McCall, Convoy, 1976
- [C]atch you on the flip-flop[.] — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 153, 1981
- a traffic lane designed for turning around US
Detroit usage. - — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 76, 1997
- (used of two homosexuals) a reversal of 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
- a homosexual who will reverse sexual roles US
- Flip-flops, also called “knickknacks,” are dudes that begin by making the homos but wind up playing the female role themselves. — James Carr, Bad, p. 155, 1975
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