Flop

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To fall or lie down heavily and noisily.
  • verb-intransitive. To move about loosely or limply: The dog's ears flopped when it ran.
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To fail utterly: The play flopped.
  • verb-intransitive. Slang To rest idly; lounge.
  • verb-intransitive. Slang To go to bed.
  • v. To drop or lay (something) down heavily and noisily: flopped the steak onto a platter.
  • n. The act of flopping.
  • n. The sound made when flopping.
  • n. Informal An utter failure.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To fall heavily, because lacking energy.
  • v. To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
  • v. To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
  • n. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
  • n. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
  • n. The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
  • n. A place to stay, sleep or live. See flophouse
  • n. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
  • ad. Right, squarely, flat-out.
  • ad. With a flopping sound.
  • n. A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
  • v. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
  • verb-intransitive. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall.
  • verb-intransitive. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
  • n. Act of flopping.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To clap or strike, as the wings; flap.
  • To cause to fall or hang down.
  • To flap.
  • To plump down suddenly; turn or come down with a flop: as, to flop on one's knees.
  • To collapse; yield or break down suddenly.
  • To go over suddenly to another side or party; make a sudden change of association or allegiance.
  • n. The act of flopping or flapping.
  • n. A fall like that of a soft outspread body upon the ground.
  • n. Something that flops or is capable of flopping or striking, as a fluid, semi-liquid, or gelatinous substance, against the side of a vessel containing it.
  • n. A sudden collapse or breakdown, as of resistance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a complete failure
  • ad. with a flopping sound
  • n. an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
  • n. the act of throwing yourself down
  • v. fall suddenly and abruptly
  • v. fall loosely
  • n. someone who is unsuccessful
  • v. fail utterly; collapse
  • ad. exactly
  • Verb Form
    flopped    flopping    flops   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    machine operation    computer operation    descent    godown    fall    descend    comedown    break    give    cave in   
    Cross Reference
    to flop over    aflop   
    Variant
    flopping    flopped   
    Form
    flopped    flopping   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flap    fiasco    turkey    dud    box office bomb   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bopp    Pop    atop    bop    chop    cop    crop    drop    glop    hop