Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To fall or lie down heavily and noisily.
- intransitive verb To move about loosely or limply.
- intransitive verb Informal To fail utterly.
- intransitive verb To rest idly; lounge.
- intransitive verb To go to bed.
- intransitive verb To drop or lay (something) down heavily and noisily.
- intransitive verb In certain poker games, to have attained (a hand) as a result of the first three community cards that are dealt face up at the same time.
- noun The act of flopping.
- noun The sound made when flopping.
- noun Informal An utter failure.
- noun In certain poker games, the first three community cards that are dealt face up at the same time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun The act of flopping or flapping.
- noun A fall like that of a soft outspread body upon the ground.
- noun 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.
- noun A sudden collapse or breakdown, as of resistance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. Act of flopping.
- intransitive verb To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall.
- intransitive verb colloq. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
- transitive verb To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
- transitive verb colloq. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun computing A
unit of measure ofprocessor speed , being one floating-point operation per second. - verb To
fall heavily, because lacking energy. - verb To
fail completely, not to besuccessful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.). - verb sports To pretend to be
fouled in sports, such asbasketball ,hockey (the same as todive insoccer ) - noun An incident of a certain type of fall; a
plopping down. - noun A complete
failure , especially in the entertainment industry. - noun poker The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- noun A place to stay, sleep or live. See
flophouse - noun A ponded package of
dung , as in a cow-flop. - adverb Right,
squarely , flat-out. - adverb With a flopping sound.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a complete failure
- adverb with a flopping sound
- noun an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
- noun the act of throwing yourself down
- verb fall suddenly and abruptly
- verb fall loosely
- noun someone who is unsuccessful
- verb fail utterly; collapse
- adverb exactly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The potential for this film to be a flop is already in existence, although I sincerely hope that the film is good.
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Then again, the use of the word if 'flop' is relative, I use it to label movies that performed abysmal.
Has the Downfall of Mike Myers Truly Begun? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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UPDATE: One way to disguise an imminent flip-flop is to camouflage it by changing the subject.
Think Progress » RomneyCare ‘Sort Of Similar’ To ObamaCare, But Only Obama Will Acknowledge It 2010
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Really, though, has there ever been a contestant so drenched in flop sweat for so long?
Knifings 2009
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Webster says a flip-flop is (among other things) a sudden reversal of policy or strategy.
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IE: Doing a belly flop from the high board hurts one hell of lot more than falling face forward into the water from pool side That said Im not half bad with numbers but the abilty to prove that mathmatically is beyond me,
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March 19th, 2010 at 11: 09 am spearNmagicHelmet says: dudes are just flat out flailing in flop sweat desperation.
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Really, though, has there ever been a contestant so drenched in flop sweat for so long?
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The best part about this being such a notorious flop is that the crew and cast looking back can be a little more honest than they sometimes are in such cases.
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IE: Doing a belly flop from the high board hurts one hell of lot more than falling face forward into the water from pool side That said Im not half bad with numbers but the abilty to prove that mathmatically is beyond me,
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Next, three cards are dealt face up in the middle of the table (the ‘flop’), then another card (the ‘turn’) and a final one (the ‘river’); there is a round of betting at each stage.
Paul Myerscough · Diary: Confessions of a Poker Player · LRB 29 January 2009 Paul Myerscough 2019
qroqqa commented on the word flop
Whether stooping to remove a pile of horse flop or sauntering off to his swank hotel, his hat had to be just so.
—Toni Morrison, Jazz
Not in OED in this precise sense, but it does have: 3. dial. A mass of thin mud. Also transf.
December 30, 2008