flip-flop

1. (UK, US)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.

   a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe

2. (idiomatic)A change of places; an inversion or swap.

3. A change of places; an inversion or swap.

   (US, idiomatic)An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.

4. 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.

   Flipflop

   an electronic circuit that can assume either of two stable states

5. The sound of a regular footfall.

6. A somersault.

   a backward somersault

7. (US, slang)A return trip.

8. (derogatory, offensive, slang)A person or inhabitant of the Middle East, or a Muslim nation, particularly Afghanistan.

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