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  • Meanwhile, out here in reality-land, I'd say this was a flippety-floppety response by St. John Flippety Floppety McCain.

    McCain Camp: No, He Doesn't Really Oppose Gay Adoption 2009

  • You mean another flip-flop by flippety floppety hippety hoppety McCain?

    More From Iraqi Government Official On U.S. Troops Leaving By 2010 2009

  • But now it seems that no matter what I eat, my stomach does the flippety-floppety, cramps up and, well, you know the rest.

    YOISH 2006

  • I see your floppety hat which you cannot pin down tightly to your hair, because there isn't enough of it; -- your courageous attempts to be prettier than you are, or else your carelessness from overmuch drudgery; your coquettish and ugly gestures mixed.

    A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

  • Perhaps, too, you thought your beauty, Lady Eskdale, looked well in that floppety cap?

    The Semi-Attached Couple 1860

  • "I have not the good fortune to know what a floppety cap is, my dear; but I thought she looked very handsome, even by the side of those two pretty daughters of hers."

    The Semi-Attached Couple 1860

  • Cut the tendons and the feet go flippety, floppety and you get nowhere.

    The Daily Reckoning 2009

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