Usage examples (26)

• Something going flip-flap in the night
• Verb (used without object) : The opposition claimed that the President had flip-flopped on certain issues. ,The door flip-flopped in the high wind
• People flitted by like black shadows in the dark streets, and their shoes went flip-flap on the greasy pavements.
• When he did a round off a flip-flap and a high back somersault, a row of head-sets across the ring, finishing by doing heels in the mud, Alfred turned green with envy.