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Entry #0636 · Public Archive · TML 003.8 / SPT.II

The Old Icelandic Flip-Flop

Top Definition

Def. 01 of 10
Someone who's worn something that's way too casual to an event. §
Submitted by: [redacted] Contributor Record Sealed · 8 March 2018

verified Mr. H. Okafor · TML/F-204b · clerk S.T.A.

Public Endorsement
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This definition: 1 · Entry total: 10

Endorsements logged to TML-0636/D01

filed in Vol. I, drawer 12, shelf 5

See also TML-3486 (q.v.) · TML-3527 (q.v.) · TML-3776 (q.v.)

File index · TML-0636 · 10 records · select a ref to view
RefContributorRegionFiledEnd.
D01 [redacted] 8 Mar 20181
D02 [redacted] 8 Mar 20181
D03 [redacted] 8 Mar 20181
D04 [redacted] 8 Mar 20181
D05 [redacted] 8 Mar 20181
D06 [redacted] 8 Mar 20181
D07 [redacted] 8 Mar 20181
D08 [redacted] 15 Mar 20181
D09 [redacted] 15 Mar 20181
D10 [redacted] 15 Mar 20181

Alternate Definitions

D02

Those tennis racket-shaped snowshoes you see. And no one knows what to call them.

Submitted by: [redacted] · 8 March 2018

verified Dr. R. Hollis · TML/F-217 · clerk B.J.W.

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D03

When I go into my fridge, yeah, and I find at the bottom just something frozen that looks, could be a fish finger. Not sure. It could be sweet, it could be savoury. Something's fallen out of a bag somewhere, it's now bigger.

Submitted by: [redacted] · 8 March 2018

verified Dr. R. Hollis · TML/F-217 · clerk G.L.S.

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D04

The old Icelandic flip crocs. Just simply crocs.

Submitted by: [redacted] · 8 March 2018

verified Mr. H. Okafor · TML/F-217 · clerk H.M.

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D05

When you go to get something out of the back of your car during snowy weather, with your shoes precariously half on, half off.

Submitted by: [redacted] · 8 March 2018

verified Dr. M. Vassiliou · TML/F-204b · clerk G.L.S.

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D06

When you're in Iceland buying frozen veg to be healthy, but that steak pie just looks too good. Swift replacement in the trolley.

Submitted by: [redacted] · 8 March 2018

verified Mr. H. Okafor · TML/F-204 · clerk N.R.

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D07

When you see someone wearing those white slippers you get in hotels in their own home, which they've clearly stolen. §

Submitted by: [redacted] · 8 March 2018

verified Mrs. E. Tindall · TML/F-217 · clerk J.B.

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D08

When you're in the queue at the supermarket and decide to switch at the last minute, resulting in the queue you've just left moving faster and you wished you'd stayed with your work.

Submitted by: [redacted] · 15 March 2018

verified Mrs. E. Tindall · TML/F-204 · clerk D.E.H.

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D09

Those tennis racket-shaped snowshoes that you only see in cartoons.

Submitted by: [redacted] · 15 March 2018

verified Mr. H. Okafor · TML/F-204b · clerk B.J.W.

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D10

When you go to get something from the back of your car in snowy weather with your shoes precariously half on, half off.

Submitted by: [redacted] · 15 March 2018

verified Mr. G. Coleridge · TML/F-217 · clerk C.P.

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  1. Variant spelling recorded in Vol. II; not consolidated.
  2. Region note pending confirmation from contributor.
  3. Use disputed between two regional registers.
  4. Cross-reference deferred to next revision.