Flop

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  • noun. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To fall or lie down heavily and noisily.
  • intransitive verb. To move about loosely or limply.
  • intransitive verb. To fail utterly.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To rest idly; lounge.
  • intransitive verb. To go to bed.
  • intransitive verb. To drop or lay (something) down heavily and noisily.
  • intransitive verb. In certain poker games, to have attained (a hand) as a result of the first three community cards that are dealt face up at the same time.
  • noun. The act of flopping.
  • noun. The sound made when flopping.
  • noun. An utter failure.
  • noun. In certain poker games, the first three community cards that are dealt face up at the same time.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To clap or strike, as the wings; flap.
  • To cause to fall or hang down.
  • To flap.
  • To plump down suddenly; turn or come down with a flop: as, to flop on one's knees.
  • To collapse; yield or break down suddenly.
  • To go over suddenly to another side or party; make a sudden change of association or allegiance.
  • noun. The act of flopping or flapping.
  • noun. A fall like that of a soft outspread body upon the ground.
  • noun. Something that flops or is capable of flopping or striking, as a fluid, semi-liquid, or gelatinous substance, against the side of a vessel containing it.
  • noun. A sudden collapse or breakdown, as of resistance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Act of flopping.
  • intransitive verb. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall.
  • intransitive verb. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
  • transitive verb. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
  • transitive verb. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.
  • verb. To fall heavily, because lacking energy.
  • verb. To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
  • verb. To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
  • noun. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
  • noun. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
  • noun. The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
  • noun. A place to stay, sleep or live. See flophouse
  • noun. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
  • adverb. Right, squarely, flat-out.
  • adverb. With a flopping sound.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a complete failure
  • adverb. with a flopping sound
  • noun. an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
  • noun. the act of throwing yourself down
  • verb. fall suddenly and abruptly
  • verb. fall loosely
  • noun. someone who is unsuccessful
  • verb. fail utterly; collapse
  • adverb. exactly
  • Word Usage
    "The potential for this film to be a flop is already in existence, although I sincerely hope that the film is good."
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    Form
    flopped  flopping  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bopp  Pop  atop  bop  chop  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    flopped  flopping  
    verb-form
    flopped  flopping  flops