flip-flopnoun
uk/ˈflɪp.flɒp/us/ˈflɪp.flɑːp/flip-flop noun (SHOE)
[ C usually plural ] US and Australian English thong a type of open shoe, often made of rubber, with a V-shaped strap that goes between the big toe and the toe next to it
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Shoes
- ankle boot
- ballet shoe
- Birkenstock
- bootlace
- bootstrap
- brogue
- high heels
- high-top
- hobnail boot
- insole
- instep
- jackboot
- shoelace
- shoestring
- shoetree
- skyscraper heels
- slingbacks
- spat
- welly
- whitening
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flip-flop noun (CHANGE)
US informal an occasion when someone completely changes a plan
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Change and changes
- a change is as good as a rest idiom
- adjustment
- alteration
- blip
- changeover
- drift
- ebb
- gradation
- metamorphosis
- modulate
- paradigm shift
- perversion
- punctuated equilibrium
- rearrangement
- shake-up
- speciation
- step change
- tide
- transfigure
- twist
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flip-flopverb [ I ]
uk/ˈflɪp.flɒp/us/ˈflɪp.flɑːp/US informalto change a plan completely
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Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- polymorphous
- reverse
- swing
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
- turn (sb/sth) into sb/sth
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