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  • verb Present participle of flipflop.

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Examples

  • That's flipflopping only if the definition of "flipflopping" includes "saying something dumb to a receptive audience, and then having the sense to correct the mistake."

    Gershom Gorenberg: Obama Picks the Right Baggage for Visiting Israel 2008

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is a classic example of the kind of flipflopping we've expected from this senator.

    CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2004 2004

  • Advisors have been cramming words and policies into him, inevitably making him look silly and out of touch -- flipflopping on asbestos, selecting EI reform as a defining electoral issue, putting the Conservatives on "probation," tough-talking about an election when he's ten percent behind in the polls.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • Advisors have been cramming words and policies into him, inevitably making him look silly and out of touch -- flipflopping on asbestos, selecting EI reform as a defining electoral issue, putting the Conservatives on "probation," tough-talking about an election when he's ten percent behind in the polls.

    Opposition: time to recalibrate 2010

  • If you didn't think she was fit to be the Solicitor General, and then you turn around and support her nomination for the SCOTUS, you will be validating the opinions of your opponents – primarily that you are a flipflopping joke of a man who has no business participating in important decisions.

    Specter to CNN: No 'knee jerk reaction' on Kagan nomination 2010

  • In a Democrat-landslide year, in which Obama carred Minnesota by a huge amount, Franken got only 43% and is ahead of a corrupt, flipflopping, Bush-embracing moral disaster by a margin that is smaller than minuscule.

    Matthew Yglesias » Franken FTW 2009

  • If you didn't think she was fit to be the Solicitor General, and then you turn around and support her nomination for the SCOTUS, you will be validating the opinions of your opponents – primarily that you are a flipflopping joke of a man who has no business participating in important decisions.

    Specter to CNN: No 'knee jerk reaction' on Kagan nomination 2010

  • If you've never gone through a divorce, let me propose you prepare (DO) for this kind of gut-flipflopping, bile-choking, brain-exploding remark to just fall out of your mouth without warning.

    Susan Orlins: Throw Yourself a Divorce Party -- Worrywart's Do's and Don'ts 2010

  • If you've never gone through a divorce, let me propose you prepare (DO) for this kind of gut-flipflopping, bile-choking, brain-exploding remark to just fall out of your mouth without warning.

    Susan Orlins: Throw Yourself a Divorce Party -- Worrywart's Do's and Don'ts 2010

  • Want to know more about this flipflopping old poop, Search "the real mccain" on youtube.

    CNN Poll: McCain and Obama locked in a dead heat 2008

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