sb. [onomatopœic reduplication; cf. prec. and FLOP.] In nonce-uses: a. The ‘flap’ of the ear. b. The sound of a regular footfall.
1661. K. W., Confused Characters, Informer (1860), 47. We will stop the mishapen hols widdowed of their flip-flops, with pitch and rozen, least there still he retaine also too much of the faculty of enterance.
1889. J. K. Jerome, Three Men in Boat, xi. He got to slinking down the by-streets and hiding in dark doorways when he heard the regulation flip-flop approaching.
