flip-flops

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ˈflip-flops noun [plural]   DCCopen summer shoes, usually made of rubber, with a V-shaped band across the front to hold your feet 人字拖鞋 SYN American English thongs →5 see picture at 见图 shoe1

Examples from the Corpus

flip-flops• This is divided by a string of 15 flip-flops.• For simplicity there are only 9 flip-flops in a 3 x 3 array.• All I've got for myself is flip-flops.• Make sure you have your race number Have you packed a pair of flip-flops for after the race?• Tourists inevitably end up having to buy either wellies or flip-flops when the weather does something perverse.• Holding the choker in her hand, she heard the amah's flip-flops coming downstairs.• Taylor complained of stomach flip-flops but never swerved in his resolve to die.• With sufficient flip-flops we can remember as many bits as we choose.

ˈflip-flops nounChineseSyllable  

rubber, with open a usually of V-shaped shoes, Corpus made summer

flip-flops
ˈflip-flops noun [plural]

open summer shoes, usually made of rubber, with a V-shaped band across the front to hold your feet
   SYN  thongs American English