flip-flop
verb [intransitive] (especially North American English, informal)Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they flip-flop | |
he / she / it flip-flops | |
past simple flip-flopped | |
past participle flip-flopped | |
-ing form flip-flopping |
- flip-flop (on something)
to change your opinion about something, especially when you then hold the opposite opinion Topics Opinion and argumentc2改变观点;(尤指)转持相反观点,来一个 180 度的大转弯 Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘something that flaps or flops’): imitative reduplication of flop.