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slip-slop

British  

noun

  1. a rubber-soled sandal attached to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the next toe

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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His writings the very slip-slop of “commerage,” the tittle-tattle of a Sunday paper, dressed up in the cant of Kentucky; the very titles, the contemptible affectation of unredeemed twaddle, ‘Pencillings by the Way!’

From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James

There he stood, for all that the sea was about him, the slip-slop waves leapin' wild, and the tide making, too, at that.

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various

The ingenious Mr Cargrim was by no means pleased with this slip-slop method of conducting business.

From The Bishop's Secret by Hume, Fergus

There was a world of difference between his old haphazard slip-slop and his present honest attempts in the ways of scholarship.

From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick

She drove over constantly from Roehampton and entertained her friend with faint fashionable fiddle-faddle and feeble Court slip-slop.

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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