flop.
To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
Meaning & usage
To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.
To cause to drop heavily.
The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.
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.
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.
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.
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).
To stay, sleep or live in a place.
To flip; to reverse (an image).
To deny someone parole.
Where this word comes from
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.
A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
Dung, as in cow-flop.
A flophouse.
Where this word comes from
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.
Indicating the sound of something flopping.
Where this word comes from
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.
Right, squarely, flat-out.
She fell flop on the floor.
With a flopping sound.
Where this word comes from
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.
Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
Where this word comes from
A variant capitalization of FLOP, a syllabic acronym of floating-point operations.
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