flip-flop

English

A variety of colorful flip-flops.

Alternative forms

• flipflop

Etymology

Onomatopoetic: most probably an imitation of the sound produced when walking in them.

Pronunciation

• enPR: flĭp'flŏp", IPA: /ˈflɪpˌflɒp/, X-SAMPA: /"flIp%flQp/

Noun

flip-flop (plural flip-flops)

1. A sandal, usually of rubber, secured to the foot by two straps mounted between the big toe and its neighbour.
2. An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.
3. (computing, electronics) An electronic circuit (a bistable multivibrator) that has two stable states and is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.

Synonyms

• (footwear): thong, jandal (New Zealand)

Translations

footwear

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: شِبْشِب (shibshib) m

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 屎屎 (cmn)

• French: tong (fr) m (Europe), clic-clac (fr) m or gougoune (fr) f (Canada), tapette (fr) f (West Africa)
• Georgian: ჩუსტი (ka) (chusti) 
• Hungarian: papucs (hu), strandpapucs (hu), pacsker (hu) (slang), vietnami papucs (hu)
• Icelandic: sandali (is) m
• Italian: infradito (it)

• Japanese: ビーチサンダル (ja) (bīchi sandaru)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: japonki (pl) pl
• Portuguese: chinelo (pt) m, chinelo de dedo (pt) m, sandalhas (pt) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: вьетнамки (ru) (v’jetnámki) f pl , шлёпанцы (ru) (šl'ópancy) m pl 
• Shona: patapata
• Spanish: calipso m (Dominican Republic), chola f (Spain's Canary Islands, Venezuela), hawaiana f (Chile, Peru), ojota f (Argentina), sayonara f (Peru), slap m (Peru), yina f (El Salvador, Guatemala), bamba (es), chancla (es) f
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

repeatedly changing one’s stated opinion

• Japanese: ぶれる (ja) (bureru), ふらふらさせる (ja) (furafura saseru)

bistable electronic circuit

• Finnish: kiikku (fi), vippa (fi)

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Translations to be checked

• Swedish: flip-flops

See also

• sandal

Verb

flip-flop (third-person singular simple present flip-flops, present participle flip-flopping, simple past and past participle flip-flopped)

1. To alternate back and forth between directly opposite opinions, ideas, or decisions.