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flop

UK/flɒp/ US/flɔp/ fairly common informal slang

verb

1.

fall loosely

  • “He flopped into a chair”
3.

fail utterly; collapse

  • “The project foundered”

noun

1.

an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers

  • “this computer can perform a million flops per second”
2.
3.

a complete failure

  • “the play was a dismal flop”
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4.

the act of throwing yourself down

  • “he landed on the bed with a great flop”
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adverb

1.

with a flopping sound

  • “he tumbled flop into the mud”
2.

exactly

  • “he fell flop on his face”
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Origin

A variant capitalization of FLOP, a syllabic acronym of floating-point operations.

Phrases

  • belly flop
  • flop account
  • flop down terms derived from flop (verb)
  • flop era
  • flop for terms derived from flop (verb)
  • flop style
  • flop sweat
  • flop tube
  • fly and flop terms derived from flop (verb)
  • Fosbury flop
  • Rabi flop
  • that's the way the mop flops terms derived from flop (verb)

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