Usually means: Sandal with a thong strap.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. flip-flop: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flip-flop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flip-flop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flip-flop, flip-flop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flip-flop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flip-Flop, Flip-flop, flip-flop: Wordnik
  7. flip-flop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flip-flop: Wiktionary
  9. flip-flop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flip-flop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flip-flop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flip-flop: Dictionary.com
  13. flip-flop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flip-flop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flip-flop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. flip-flop: Rhymezone
  17. flip-flop: Free Dictionary
  18. flip-flop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. flip-flop: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  20. flip-flop: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flip-flop: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. flip-flop: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Flip-Flop: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. flip-flop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. flip-flop: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See flip-flopped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (US, UK, Fiji) A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
noun:  A change of places; an inversion or swap.
noun:  (US) An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.
noun:  (computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.
noun:  The sound of a regular footfall.
noun:  A somersault.
noun:  (US, slang, truck driving) A return trip.
verb:  To alternate back and forth between directly opposite opinions, ideas, or decisions.

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