Flip-flops
Flip-flops are a type of light sandal-like shoe, 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 ...
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. This was her final work with 300 Entertainment and 1501 Certified.
Upon release, ''Traumazine'' received positive reviews from critics, ...
'', 2022
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Flip and Flop
''Flip and Flop'' is an isometric platform game for Atari 8-bit computers 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 features ...
'', a 1983 video game
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Flip or Flop
''Flip or Flop'' is an American television series that aired on HGTV, hosted by the formerly-married couple Tarek El Moussa and Christina Hall. The program was the original show in the ''Flip or Flop'' franchise, debuting in 2013.
On November ...
'', a U.S. television series on HGTV
Computers and electronics
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Flip-flop (electronics)
In electronics, flip-flops and latches are electronic circuit, circuits that have two stable states that can store state information – a bistable multivibrator. The circuit can be made to change state by signals applied to one or more control ...
, a circuit with two stable states
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Flip-flop (programming), a Boolean expression with persistent state and two conditions
Sports
* A back
handspring (gymnastics)
A handspring (also ''flic-flac'' or ''flip-flop'') is an acrobatic move in which a person executes a complete revolution of the body by lunging headfirst from an upright position into an inverted vertical position and then pushing off (i.e., "spri ...
* 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 kayaking, whitewater canoeing or kayaking wh ...
)
Other uses
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Flip (mathematics)
In algebraic geometry, flips and flops are codimension-2 surgery operations arising in the minimal model program, given by blowing up along a relative canonical ring. In dimension 3 flips are used to construct minimal models, and any two bir ...
, and flop – operations in algebraic geometry
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Flip-flop (politics)
A "flip-flop" (used mostly in the United States), U-turn (used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Pakistan, Malaysia, etc.), or backflip (used in Australia and New Zealand) is a derogatory term for a sudden real or apparent change of policy or opin ...
, 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'')
* Flip flop, per
top, bottom and versatile
In human sexuality, top, bottom, and versatile are roles during human sexual activity, sexual activity, especially between two (or more) males. A ''top'' is usually a person who sexual penetration, penetrates, a ''bottom'' is usually one who rec ...
, a role reversal between two men during a single sexual encounter
* The translocation of a phospholipid in cell membranes carried out by
flippase
Flippases are transmembrane lipid transporter proteins located in the cell membrane. They are responsible for aiding the movement of phospholipid molecules between the two layers, or leaflets, that comprise the membrane. This is called transverse ...
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)
Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations.
For such cases, it is a more accurate measur ...
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