Editing Flip-flops (section)

==Etymology and other names==
[[File:Two-pluggers.jpg|thumb|Double-pluggers]]
The term ''flip-flop'' has been used in [[American English|American]] and [[British English]] since the 1960s to describe inexpensive footwear consisting of a flat base, typically rubber, and a strap with three anchor points: between the big and second toes, then bifurcating to anchor on both sides of the foot. "Flip-flop" may be an [[onomatopoeia]] of the sound made by the sandals when walking in them.<ref name="etymology_dictionary">{{cite web|title=Flip-Flop|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=flip-flop|publisher=Online Etymology Dictionary|access-date=18 July 2012}}</ref>

Flip-flops are also called ''thongs'' (sometimes ''pluggers'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2016/01/australian-men-out-drinking-stop-thieves-after-robbery-interview-video|title=Australian Guys Out Drinking Accidentally Come Across Robbery, Stop Thieves|website=Complex}}</ref> ''single-'' or ''double-'' depending on construction) in Australia,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/society-and-culture/its-time-to-put-our-foot-down-on-thongs-20111029-1mp20.html|title=IT Pro - Information Technology News & Reviews|date=29 October 2011 }}</ref> ''jandals'' (originally a trademarked name derived from "Japanese sandals") in New Zealand,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/timeline/04/10|access-date=22 February 2017|title=Morris Yock trademarks the jandal|date=4 October 1957|publisher=New Zealand History}}</ref> and ''slops'' or ''plakkies'' in South Africa and Zimbabwe.<ref name="Key_AJ">{{cite web|last=Key|first=A.J.|title=Jandals, Thongs, Flip Flops & G-strings|url=http://www.biggie.co.nz/article/jandals_thongs_flip|access-date=18 July 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621062559/http://www.biggie.co.nz/article/jandals_thongs_flip|archive-date=21 June 2012}}</ref>

In the Philippines, they are called ''tsinelas''.<ref name=tsinelas/>

In India, they are called ''chappals'', (which traditionally referred to leather slippers).<ref name=Mangalore/> This is hypothesized to have come from the [[Telugu (language)|Telugu]] word ''ceppu'' ([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/చెప్పు#Telugu చెప్పు]), from Proto-Dravidian *keruppu,<ref>Burrow, T.; Emeneau, M. B. (1984). [https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/burrow_query.py?qs=ceruppu ceruppu], in ''A Dravidian etymological dictionary'', 2nd edition, Oxford University Press (ISBN 0198643268), p. 178.</ref><ref>[[Bhadriraju Krishnamurti|Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju]] (2003). The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9780521771115), p. 526.</ref> meaning "sandal".

In some parts of Latin America, flip-flops are called ''chanclas''.<ref name=ChanclaDiscipline/> Throughout the world, they are also known by a variety of other names, including ''slippers'' in the [[Bahamas]], [[Hawai‘i]], [[Jamaica]] and [[Trinidad and Tobago]].{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}