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US
/ˈfɫɑp/
]
[ UK /flˈɒp/ ]
[ UK /flˈɒp/ ]
NOUN
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a complete failure
the play was a dismal flop - someone who is unsuccessful
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an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
this computer can perform a million flops per second -
the act of throwing yourself down
he landed on the bed with a great flop
VERB
-
fall loosely
He flopped into a chair - fall suddenly and abruptly
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fail utterly; collapse
The project foundered
ADVERB
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exactly
he fell flop on his face -
with a flopping sound
he tumbled flop into the mud
How To Use flop In A Sentence
- I looked up to see Brody onstage, his dishevelled dark brown hair flopping across his forehead and both hands hanging onto the microphone.
- Six years later, one of the federal agencies that administers the program calls it a flop.
- Most systems default to booting from either the floppy disk drive or the hard drive.
- I instantly grew a floppy fringe, bought a combat jacket and started shuffling.
- Products such as ottomans and bathmats made from recycled flip-flops are "whimsical and interesting, but it's not doing things at the deepest level. Designer Trash
- He was wearing khakis and a shirt with tiny flowers on it, and his blond hair was freshly washed and flopped over one eye. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
- He got fined 5k for admitting to being a serial flopper.
- In the absence of networking, students need to submit work on floppy disks.
- Two flannels, draped across this, were mermaids, who swam and flopped and basked on islands of flesh.
- Now hardware is silicon chips and software is floppy disks. Infinite in All Directions
