Flip-flop?

[sjpfencer220]

ok then...

anyway, for me a flip-flop is a sandal with a rubber/not really solid (ie not leather/wood/etc.) with no strap around the heel/ankle, only either one flap across the top at the front of it or one of the thongs. Also with no heel since they do make some with heels now, I think those are sandals though.

[Kenji]

I've always called them slippers, but then I'm japanese (LOTS of japanese in hawaii), so that's probably where we get that from. Not that we're from Hawaii, but a lot of japanese have inherited hawaiian japanese slang.

Actually, generally, the "thong" style ones I call slippers, and the ones without a strap between the toes we generally refer to as zori. Interesting note, since there is no plural in japanese, zori is both singular and plural, so "zories" just sounds funny to me.