NOUN
- an electronic circuit that can assume either of two stable states
- a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe
- a backward somersault
- a decision to reverse an earlier decision
VERB
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
How To Use flip-flop In A Sentence
- Products such as ottomans and bathmats made from recycled flip-flops are "whimsical and interesting, but it's not doing things at the deepest level. Designer Trash
- It was important that they were allowed to slug it out over the so-called flip-flop on that legislation.
- After his flip-flop on Kyoto last week, he is at it again this week.
- What is it with this ridiculous fashion at the moment for wearing loose sandals or flip-flops?
- His willingness to shift his message allowed his rivals to ridicule him as an opportunistic flip-flopper. Times, Sunday Times
- I kick off my flip-flops and slide into shorts and sneaks.
- Dogged as a flip-flopper in 2008 for his repeated policy shifts to the right, Mr. Romney is running this time as the unflappable former businessman and nonpolitician. Romney, in Shift, to Court Tea Party
- Even this Party should allow a decent pause before it flip-flops on fiscal policy.
- Cameron made no secret of his plans before the election but the Liberal Democrat approach to macroeconomic policy was broadly similar to Labour's until Clegg flip-flopped the weekend after polling day. Cuts offer Ed Miliband an open goal
- The casual cousins of slip-on sandals, flip-flops are basically nice shower shoes.