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Meaning of 'flop'
Meaning of 'flop' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Flop 
[ n.]
- Act of flopping. [ n.]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. [ v. i.]- 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. [ v. t.]- To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
Meaning of 'flop' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. flop [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- the act of throwing yourself down
- the act of throwing yourself down
Example in sentence:
- he landed on the bed with a great flop
Meaning (2):
- a complete failure
- a complete failure
Example in sentence:
- the play was a dismal flop
Meaning (3):
- an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
- an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
Example in sentence:
- this computer can perform a million flops per second
2. flop [ v]
[ v]Meaning (4):
- fall loosely
- fall loosely
Example in sentence:
- He flopped into a chair
Meaning (5):
- fail utterly; collapse
- fail utterly; collapse
Example in sentence:
- The project foundered
3. flop [ r]
[ r]Meaning (6):
- exactly
- exactly
Example in sentence:
- he fell flop on his face
Meaning (7):
- with a flopping sound
- with a flopping sound
Example in sentence:
- he tumbled flop into the mud
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