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Meaning of 'flop' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Flop [ n.]
- Act of flopping.
2 . Flop [ v. i.]
- To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
- To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
3 . Flop [ v. t.]
- To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
- To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.

Meaning of 'flop' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . flop [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the act of throwing yourself down
Example in sentence:
  • he landed on the bed with a great flop
Meaning (2):
- a complete failure
Example in sentence:
  • the play was a dismal flop
Meaning (3):
- an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
Example in sentence:
  • this computer can perform a million flops per second
4 . flop [ v]
Meaning (4):
- fall loosely
Example in sentence:
  • He flopped into a chair
Meaning (5):
- fail utterly; collapse
Example in sentence:
  • The project foundered
6 . flop [ r]
Meaning (6):
- exactly
Example in sentence:
  • fell plumb in the middle of the puddle;
  • he fell flop on his face
Meaning (7):
- with a flopping sound
Example in sentence:
  • he tumbled flop into the mud

Nearby Words:

flo float floatable floatage floatation floated floater floatiersman floating floatingly

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