Flip-flops
Flip-flops are a type of light sandal, typically worn as a form of casual footwear. They consist of a flat sole held loosely on the foot by a Y-shaped strap known as a toe thong that passes between the first and second toes and around both side ...
are a simple type of footwear in which there is a band between the big toe and the other toes.
Flip-flop may also refer to:
Entertainment
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''Flip-Flop'' (album), a 1989 album by Guadalcanal Diary
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''Flip-Flop'' (audio drama), a 2003 audio drama based on the British television series ''Doctor Who''
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"Flip-Flop" (''Will & Grace''), an episode of the television series ''Will & Grace''
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Flip Flop (''Modern Family''), an episode of the television series ''Modern Family''
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Flip Flop (''The Price Is Right''), a game on ''The Price Is Right''
* "Flip Flop", a song by Megan Thee Stallion from the album ''
Traumazine
''Traumazine'' is the second studio album by American rapper Megan Thee Stallion, released on August 12, 2022, by 300 Entertainment and 1501 Certified.
Upon release, ''Traumazine'' received positive reviews from critics, who complimented its produ ...
'', 2022
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Flip and Flop
''Flip and Flop'' is an isometric platform game for the Atari 8-bit family designed by Jim Nangano and published in 1983 by First Star Software. Statesoft released a Commodore 64 port the following year. The Commodore 64 box cover, which featur ...
'', a 1983 video game
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Flip or Flop'', a U.S. television series on HGTV
Computers and electronics
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Flip-flop (electronics)
In electronics, a flip-flop or latch is a circuit that has two stable states and can be used to store state information – a bistable multivibrator. The circuit can be made to change state by signals applied to one or more control inputs and ...
, a circuit with two stable states
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Flip-flop (programming)
In computer programming, a flip-flop is a seldom-used syntactic construct which allows a boolean to flip from false to true when a first condition is met and then back to false when a second condition is met. The syntax is available in the programm ...
, a boolean expression with persistent state and two conditions
Sports
* A back
handspring (gymnastics)
* A trick performed in the sport of freestyle kayaking (
Playboating
Canoe freestyle (also known as playboating) is a discipline of whitewater kayaking or canoeing where people perform various technical moves in one place (a playspot), as opposed to downriver whitewater canoeing or kayaking where the objective i ...
)
Other uses
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Flip (mathematics), and flop – operations in algebraic geometry
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Flip-flop (politics), a sudden change of position on an issue
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Flip-flop hub, a type of hub used in bicycle wheels
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Flip-flop kinetics, a phenomenon in pharmacokinetics when a drug is released at a sustained rate instead of immediate release
* A common name of the African wood white butterfly (''
Leptosia alcesta
''Leptosia alcesta'', the African wood white or flip flop, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, found in Africa.
The wingspan is 30–40 mm in males and 35–42 mm in females. The adults fly year-round, peaking from March to May.
T ...
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* Flip flop, per
top, bottom and versatile
In human sexuality, top, bottom, and versatile are roles during sexual activity, especially between two men. A ''top'' is usually a person who penetrates, a ''bottom'' is usually one who receives penetration, and someone who is ''versatile'' e ...
, a role reversal between two men during a single sexual encounter
* The translocation of a phospholipid in cell membranes carried out by
flippase
Flippases (rarely spelled flipases) are transmembrane lipid transporter proteins located in the membrane which belong to ABC transporter or P4-type ATPase families. They are responsible for aiding the movement of phospholipid molecules between th ...
proteins
See also
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Flippity and Flop, a pair of cartoon characters that appeared in theatrical shorts, 1945–1947
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Flip (disambiguation)
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Flop (disambiguation)
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