flip-flop
noun
a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
flip-flap
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a variation of
flip-flop.
Example Sentences
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Buckle up sunshine, we're about to flip-flap our way through an important lesson.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
My heart did a double flip-flap ... hasn't done thumping yet.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
Oh, I want to go on the flip-flap.
From The Lee Shore by Dame Rose Macaulay
He hadn't gone very far before he noticed a grasshopper moving along so swiftly that the old gentleman rabbit could hardly see the legs go flip-flap.
From Uncle Wiggily's Travels by Howard Roger Garis
Why, you’d have done it splendidly if you had dived off the rock instead of going in flip-flap like a sole out of a basket.
From The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap by Stanley L. Wood
