Flop

Definition: Flop

Flop

Adverb

1. With a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud".

2. (informal) exactly; "he fell flop on his face".

Noun

1. An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second".

2. (informal) someone who is unsuccessful.

3. A complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop".

4. The act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop".

Verb

1. Fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair".

2. Fall suddenly and abruptly.

3. Fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references)

Note: Flop \Flop\, noun. Act of flopping. [Colloquial]. (references)

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FLOP

FLOP

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Synonyms: Flop

Agitation

Verb: be agitated; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort; squirm.

Crosswords: Flop

Dutch (abortion, failure, fiasco), Manx (plop ), Swedish (flop).

To you, everybody's a flop. Your husband's a flop, I'm a flop (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; writing credit: Edward Albee; Ernest Lehman)

To run the bases -- stretch a double into a triple, and flop face-first into third, wrap your arms around the bag. That's my wish, Ray Kinsella (Field of Dreams; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson)

The plot would flop (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC)

Just play the game and you'll never flop (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW)

Or the Firm flop (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre)

Flop Secret (1951)

Inspektor Rolle - Top oder Flop (2002)

Flip Flop Shop (2001)

Flop (1990)

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Books

• Adventures In Odyssey Amazing Stories Series: #4 Self Esteem Whit's Flop (reference)

• Flop Ear (reference)

• School/Summer: A Flip Flop Journal (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mary Lou's Flip Flop Shop 4 Sharing (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Flip Flop (reference)

• Flip, Flop, & Fly (reference)

• Flop and the Fall of the Mopsqueezer! (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The makings of a good "belly flop.". Credit: America's Coastlines.

Figure 54. Richter mounting with messenger and pump brake for slowing reversing action. With the earlier models used by Doflein, the mounting would flop over too quickly and jar the mercury column sufficiently to cause its separation. To slow down the reversing motion, a piston pump mechanism was installed on the mounting. This mounting was employed by Doflein off the coast of Japan in 1904. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Fifty years ago, frozen orange juice was just a flavorless commercial flop. The only orange juice you could get back then was either squeezed from fresh oranges, mixed from a relatively tasteless concentrate, or poured from a can-and it tasted like a can! P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He spread his hands helplessly and let them flop against his sides

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Expressions using "flop": belly flop ♦ flip flop ♦ flop about ♦ flop around ♦ flop down ♦ flop in ♦ flop out ♦ flop over to a party. Additional references.

Beginning with "flop": flop-eared, flop-haired, flop-houses.

Ending with "flop": belly-flop, cow-flop, D-type flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, JK flip-flop, mega-flop, RS flip-flop, ski-flop, SR flip-flop.

Albanian

rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, spill, taper, tumble, wane), plandosje (plump, plunk), lëshoj (cede, concede, dart, depasture, discharge, ease, effuse, emit, exhale, fetch, fire, get off, give, give off, give out, give rise to, heave, heave a sigh, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, let off, pay, project, radiate, relieve, send, set on, shed, shoot, sluice, throw down, touch off, trip, unbrace, unbridle, uncork, uncouple, unleash, unmuzzle, unrein, untuck, utter), lëshohem (be launched, cave in, fail, flag, go down, hibernate, lag, languish, rush on, stoop, unwind), kthej befas, dështoj (abort, backfire, fail, fall down, fall short, fall short of, fall through, go down the drain, go phut, lose, lose out, miscarry), dështim (abortion, anticlimax, bust, collapse, come down, crash, cropper, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flash in the pan, frost, frustration, licking, miscarriage, no go, reverse), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فندق رخيص (motel), ‏فشل (balk, be failed, be unable to do, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, cower, defeat, dud, fail, failure, fiasco, fizzle out, frustration, go awry, go wrong, lose courage, lose ground, lose heart, make a hash of it, miscarry, miss, miss fire, miss the mark, torpedo, trip up, unsuccess, washout), ‏هياج (commotion, eruption, excitation, excitement, flutter, roughness, ruction, shindy), ‏هبوط مفاجئ (anticlimax, dive, slump), ‏تخبط السمكة بذيلها, ‏إرتماء بتثاقل, ‏شخص مخفق (failure). (various references)

Bulgarian 

некадърник (bungler, dud, duffer, incapable, lightweight, mutt, no good, sad sack, washout), пляскам с криле (flap, flutter, winnow), пляскане (clap, plash), пльосвам се (fall flat, sprawl), падам тежко (pitch, plump), пребоядисвам се, преминавам в друга партия, провалям се напълно (go by the board), пълен провал, пляс (plop, slap, smack, swash, zap), лягам си (bunk, hit the hay, kip, kip down, lie down, retire, roll in, sack out, shake down, turn in), сядам тежко, глух звук, къртя (peg at, peg away, pick), с плясък (plop, squash), туп (thump), цап, цопване (plop, plump, splash), спя (kip, sleep, slumber), строполясване, бух (thump). (various references)

Chinese 

掉落 , 拍击声 (Flops). (various references)

Czech

fiasko (disaster, failure, fiasco, squib, wash out, washout), neúspìšný (failed, ineffective, ineffectual, unfortunate, unlucky, unsuccessful). (various references)

Danish

flop, changering (traverse, traversing). (various references)

Dutch

afgang (failure). (various references)

Esperanto

malsukcesego (failure). (various references)

Finnish

mätkähtää, geometrinen metameria. (various references)

French

fruit sec, four, fiasco, faire un four, s'effondrer, s'agiter (flounce), s'affaler, renverser, pas cher, effondrement, effet flop, double ton, avatar, agitation (flounce, flurry, fluster, flutter), affolement. (various references)

German

versager (abnegator, abnegators, dead beat, failure), reinfall (disaster, failure, letdown, Miss, non event, pratfall, sell, washout), pleite (bankruptcy, broke, bust, collapse, dog, failure, fizzling, flat, Miss, non event, on the rocks, sell, washout). (various references)

Greek 

χτυπιέμαι. (various references)

Hebrew 

תפ� ית (flip-flop, swerve, swing, turn, turnabout), ש� וי מקום (flip-flop). (various references)

Hungarian

pottyanás (plump). (various references)

Indonesian

cercap (flop about, squirm). (various references)

Italian

FLOPS (Floating point operations per second, floating-point operations per second, FLOPS), fiasco (failure, fiasco, flagon, frost), fare fiasco, fallire (abort, backfire, break, collapse, fail, go bankrupt, miscarry, misfire, Miss, smash, to go bankrupt), tonfo (dash, fall, plonk, splash, thud, thump, wallop), insuccesso (abortiveness, breakdown, defeat, fail, failure, fiasco, Miss), doppio colore, colore cangiante, camminare goffamente (lollop, stump), cadere pesantemente. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ばい菌 (a sure thing, abruptly, bacteria, be dry, disconnected, disperse, divorced, germ, in drops, in pieces, loose, only, perfectly, plump, properly, right on the mark, rustle, rustling, scattered, suddenly, to be exhausted, to be worn out, to expose, to kill, to lay open, to murder, to take to pieces, unexpectedly, with a bang, with a clash, with a thud). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばったり (abruptly, plump, suddenly, unexpectedly, with a bang, with a clash). (various references)

Korean 

툭 떨어뜨림 (Flops). (various references)

Manx

dy flapperagh (to flop). (various references)

Norwegian

fiasko (failure), slå (beat, hit, strike), deise, bakse (flounder). (various references)

Pig Latin

opflay.(various references)

Portuguese

fracasso (abortion, bloomer, bust, failure, flunk, frost, ill-conceived), fracassar (abort, bust, fail, flunk, lose out), fiasco (abortion, boner, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flunk, frost, washout), falhar (balk, boss, conk out, fail, lapse, mammock, miscarry, miss, muff, mull, peter out, slump, smash, stumble), insucesso (failure, misbirth, miscarriage, unaccomplished), enterrar-se (sink), efeito "flop", dupla tonalidade, derrocada (falling), decepção (balk, deception, delusion, disillusion, juggle), cair pesadamente, baquear (fall, fall down, flump, plump), baque (blow, plump, shake, shoke, thud, thump). (various references)

Romanian

pleosc (splash), chix (fiasco), clap (bang), cu zgomot (bounce, resoundingly), da din aripi (flap), eşec (abortion, check, defeat, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, lame duck, miscarriage, naught, rebuff, repulsion, set back, wash out), insucces (abortion, bad job, failure, licking, Miss, plough, rebuff), loviturã surdã (dump), cãdea cu zgomot (slam), nu reuşi (abort, fail, fall, fall short of, fall through, miscarry, Miss, slip up), zdup (bang, bump, jug, limbo, Nick, quod, smash, thud, thump), plescãi (click, munch), plescãind, plescãit (dash, plash), se bãlãbãni (dangle, flap, paddle, stagger, swing), se trânti greoi, suferi un eşec (come a cropper, miscarry, strand), trânti cu zgomot (flump), zbughi (flip, go, hop), nu avea succes (cut no ice, fall flat, fold). (various references)

Russian 

триггер (trigger), шлепнуться (thud), шлепанье (flap). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

težak pad, skljokati se (collapse), pretrpeti neuspeh (bomb, fail, fall). (various references)

Spanish

fracaso (abortion, breakdown, bust, defecation, departure, desperation, failing, failure, fiasco, flunk, miscarriage, Miss, trouble, Turkey, washout). (various references)

Swedish

smäll (bang, clap, crack, flap, flip, knock, lash, ping, pop, report, slam, slap, smash, sock, spank, swat, whack, wham, whang), flop, fiasko (dud, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flivver, frost, muck up, muck-up, washout). (various references)

Thai

ล้มเหลว (asleep at the wheel, cave in, fail, fold up), ล้มตัวลง, ความล้มเหลว (catastrophe, collapse, failing, failure, falling, naught). (various references)

Turkish

fiyasko ile sonuçlanmak (bomb, fail), düşüvermek, şlap, şlap diye, başarısızlığa uğramak (bomb, buy it, come a cropper, fail, fall down, mire down, strand), cup (plop, splash), cup diye, cup diye düşmek (plop, splash), çırpınmak (flutter, fuss about, struggle), düşürmek (beat down, cause to fall, curtail, deflate, depress, drop, knock off, let down, let fall, lower, mark down, overthrow, precipitate, pull dawn, put down, reduce, roll back, scale down, screw down, send down, sink, slim down, spill, step down, take from, throw, topple over, trip), yatak (bearings, bed, berth, bunk, bye bye, den, doss, haunt, hotbed, kip, mattress, recess, sack, seam, seating, seminary), düşme (descent, downfall, drop, fall, falling away, falling down, falling off, precipitation, sag, scale down, slump, spill, tumble), suya düşme (collapse, miscarriage, petering, wreck), suya düşmek (collapse, come to grief, come to naught, come to nought, come unstuck, fail, fall through, fizzle, fizzle out, go by the board, go phut, go to pot, miscarry, peter out), uyuyacak yer, yığılmak (agglomerate, bank up, conglomerate, draw up, drift, pour, roll up, slump down, subside, swarm), cup sesi. (various references)

Turkmen 

dьnderilmek (flip-flop, turn upside-down). (various references)

Ukrainian

шльопати (flap, slap, smack, splash), шльопанець (baff, spank), гепнутися (plunk, whop), невдаха (dud, fail, loser, might-have-been, misfit, never-was, underdog, unfortunate, washout), невдача (abortion, bad, baffle, defection, down, fail, failing, ill luck, infelicity, miscarriage, mischance, mishap, no go, setback), зазнати невдачі (abort, come to grief, fail, fall down, fall short, fall through, miss the bus, mucker), плюхнутися (wallop), плюхнути. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự rơi tõm, đánh thịch một cái, đánh tõm một cái. (various references)

dub. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flop": flophouse, flophouses, flopover, flopovers, flopped, flopper, floppers, floppier, floppies, floppiest, floppily, floppiness, floppinesses, flopping, floppy, flops. (additional references)

Words ending with "flop": cowflop, gigaflop. (additional references)

Words containing "flop": cowflops, gigaflops. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alop, dlop, Fclo, flapt, flep, Flipo, flirp, flob, flod, floj, flok, flom, floop, floox, flope, Floppo, flopt, flor, flot, flou, floy, flup, Folb, folv, fomp, foop, fopa, fopi, frop, Fullup, Gflop, glop, Iflo, klop. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fop, lop, pol.

-2 letters: lo, of, op.

+1 letter: flops.

+2 letters: floppy, potful, topful, upflow, upfold.

+3 letters: cowflap, cowflop, flattop, flopped, flopper, fowlpox, hopeful, peafowl, pinfold, plafond, playoff, potfuls, poutful, profile, topfull, upflows, upfolds.

+4 letters: cowflaps, cowflops, epifocal, fishpole, flagpole, flattops, fleshpot, flopover, floppers, floppier, floppies, floppily, flopping, followup, foolscap, foreplay, fourplex, gigaflop, hopefuls, leapfrog, oilproof, pantofle, parfocal, peafowls, piliform, pinfolds, plafonds, planform, platform, playoffs, powerful, profiled, profiler, profiles, prolific, proudful, scoopful, shoplift, slipform, spoonful, sportful, toplofty, upflowed, upfolded.