FLIPFLOPEROTIC

FLIPFLOPEROTIC - The Footlust Diaries

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This sandal is known by different names in different localities:
In Argentina they are known as ojotas.
In Australia they are known as thongs.
In Brazil they are known as sandálias or chinelos.
In Canada they are known as flip flops although thongs is a very common term.
In Chile they are known as sandalias or chalas (second one is informal).
In China they are known as traditional Chinese: 拖鞋; pinyin: tuōxié (referring to shoes which drag to the floor).
In Croatia they are known as japanke, meaning Japanese (slippers is implied).
In Czech republic and in Slovakia they are known as žabky (translated means frogs)
In Denmark they are known as klip-klappere.
In El Salvador they are known as yinas and chancletas.
In Estonia they are known as plätud.
In Flanders they are known as teensletsen
In French they are known as tongs or claquettes, but in Quebec they are known as gougounes.
In Ghana they are known as chale wotes
In Greece they are known as sagionares (from the famous Japanese farewell Sayōnara)
In Guam they are known as "zorries" (from Japanese zōri 草履).
In Hawaii sandals are known as slippers or slippas. Flip-flops specifically are known as jap-slaps [sic] .
In Indonesia they are known as "sandal jepit".
In Israel they are known as כפכפי-אצבע (transliterated into English: kafkafey-etsba, meaning toe slippers)
In Italy they are called infradito , literally inter-toes..
In Japan they are known as ビーサン ("biisan" derived from the English "beach sandals")
In Malawi they are known as "ma slippas" or "ma pata pata".
In Malaysia they are known as selipar jepun, literally "Japanese slippers"
In Malta they are known as "karkur".
In Mexico they are called "chanclas."
In Myanmar they are known as "Pha Nut".
In The Netherlands they are known as teenslippers
In New Zealand English they are known generically as jandals (Japanese SANDALS).
In Pakistan they are known as chappals, qainchey chappals or Hawaiian chappals.
In Panama they are known as chancletas, chinelas, or chancletas "rock-'n-roll".
In Philippines they are known as tsinelas and slippers.
In Poland they are known as japonki which literally translated means "Japanese women", but its real meaning is simply "The Japanese".
In Romania they are known as şlapi.
In Russia they are known as vyetnamki meaning "Vietnamese", or slancy - by the name of a town (Slancy), where they have been made since Soviet era.
In South Africa they are known as slops.
In Spain they are known as chancletas or chanclas.
In Sri Lanka they are known as slippers or Bata, after the name of the most popular flip-flop brand in the country Bata.
In Turkey they are known as tokyo, şipidik, parmak-arası.
In Uganda they are known as makambos
In the United States they are generally known as sandals, flip-flops, go-aheads, thongs, and zōri.
In the United States Army they are known as shower-shoes
In the United States Navy they are known as go-slowers (a play on "go-fasters", the Navy term for running shoes)
In Uruguay they are known as chancletas
In Wales they are known as: flop-flip
In Venezuela they are known as: cholas
In Saint Lucia they are known as: Katapol