Sekirov Dictionary

flop

/flɒp/

verb 9
noun 7
adverb 2
exclamation 1
forms 3
phrases 3

verb9

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To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.
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(informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
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To cause to drop heavily.
- The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.
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To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.
- While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.
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To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
- The brim of a hat flops.
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(slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- […] not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to flop," […] — 1969
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To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A's hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B's hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ).
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To flip; to reverse (an image).
- The possibilities of this type of shot are almost limitless. By quartering the screen and duplicating and flopping the picture, a kaleidoscopic effect is achieved. — 1968
(slang) To deny someone parole.

noun7

A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
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A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- Well I know your little baby sister / She thinks that I'm a flop / But I guess that you know that it's true / I spent more time at the bottom than the top — 1979
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The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands. — 1996
One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
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Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
- The Correlator can perform 750 billion ‘flops’, or simple calculations, per second. — 1993
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(slang) A flophouse.
- He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or slept in a flop. — 2013
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(informal) Dung, as in cow-flop.
- "Maybe as you think," he said, "because as I've the misfortune of an accidental slip on a cow-flop therefore I has the inability of an unborn babe, ... — 1960

adverb2

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Right, squarely, flat-out.
- She fell flop on the floor.
With a flopping sound.

exclamation1

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Indicating the sound of something flopping.
- "One step. Steady. Another step. Flop! I got him!" — 1900

forms

flopped · flopping · flops

Phrases with flop

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