flop
IPA: fɫˈɑp
noun
- A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
- (slang) A flophouse.
- (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
- (computing) Synonym of flop.
- (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
verb
- (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
- (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- (intransitive) 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.
- (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
- (transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole.
adverb
- Right, squarely, flat-out.
- With a flopping sound.
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Examples of "flop" in Sentences
- The album flopped in the charts.
- The flop came and the turn fell.
- The film was a flop in the box office.
- He flopped himself down because of fatigue.
- The season was a flop and the house was lost.
- The isoform presented here is the flop isoform.
- The flop becomes a hit because of the publicity.
- The film was a flop in India and the overseas market.
- The band split up because the album was a flop in the charts.
- Yes, Trespasser was a financial flop, but technically it was a revolution.
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