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- verb Alternative spelling of
belly flop . (To enter the water on yourbelly whendiving , or tofail at something.)
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Examples
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He is approaching 500 career appearances and 150 goals, many of them marked with his trademark "bellyflop" celebration.
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He is approaching 500 career appearances and 150 goals, many of them marked with his trademark "bellyflop" celebration.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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A "bellyflop," Girardi called it [he also praised it in a serious moment as the crucial play of the game].
unknown title 2009
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A "bellyflop," Girardi called it [he also praised it in a serious moment as the crucial play of the game].
unknown title 2009
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But Keane still has the ability to get under people's skin judging by his TV punditry of United's bellyflop into the Europa League and the way it has brought little puffs of toxic smoke from Sir Alex Ferguson's nostrils.
Sir Alex Ferguson rounds on critics as Manchester United beat Wolves 2011
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Thus the sedentary act of reading becomes a leap from a board poised high above an Olympic-sized pool: "I decided it would be a good idea to dive bellyflop, really into the scientific literature."
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer – review 2011
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And there's always the chance you're going to come a great big bellyflop and half-kill yourself.
Housekeeping karenmiller 2008
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Hell, I don't expect Edwards to have done something on the scale of "An Inconvenient Truth," but for his pet project to bellyflop in two years doesn't say much about his organizational skills.
Edwards Campaign Blasts New York Times Over Poverty Story 2009
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Worse, Zoloft maker Pfizer contributed $30,000 to the article bellyflop writes Alison Bass, author of Side Effects: A Best-selling Drug on Trial, in the Boston Globe.
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Utley, who is also a two-time world bellyflop and cannonball champ, said he also did a lot of visualization leading up to the competition.
350 lb Man in a Pink Tutu Wins Cannonball Contest | Impact Lab 2007
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