What do Americans call thongs?


What do Americans call thongs? Flip-flop may be an onomatopoeia of the sound made by the sandals when walking in them. Flip-flops are also called thongs (sometimes pluggers) in Australia, jandals (originally a trademarked name derived from Japanese sandals) in New Zealand, and slops or plakkies in South Africa and Zimbabwe.


What do Australians call thongs?

Thongs - rubber flip-flops. In the Northern Territory thongs are commonly called “double pluggers” or “pluggers”.