flop
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flop¹
- /flɒp/ Canada, Northern England, UK
- /flɔp/ Australia, British, Scotland
- /flɑp/ US
- /flɒp/ New Zealand
- [flɔ̟p] ~ [flɞ̠p] New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɒp
Where it comes from
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.
verb flops · flopping · flopped
- 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.
- 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. […] not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to flop," […]
- To flip; to reverse (an image). The possibilities of this type of shot are almost limitless. By quartering the screen and duplicating and flopping the picture, a kaleidoscopic effect is achieved.
- To deny someone parole. I've been incarcerated going on 9½ years. I have never been back on the streets or given a chance to prove myself to society. Every time I would meet the parole board they would flop me telling me I would be a threat to society.
noun flops
- A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
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A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
Well I know your little baby sister / She thinks that I'm a flop / But I guess that you know that it's true / I spent more time at the bottom than the top
Similar: dud, fiasco, turkey, box office bomb
- The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game. The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands.
- Dung, as in cow-flop. "Maybe as you think," he said, "because as I've the misfortune of an accidental slip on a cow-flop therefore I has the inability of an unborn babe, ...
- A flophouse. He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or slept in a flop.
interjection
- Indicating the sound of something flopping. "One step. Steady. Another step. Flop! I got him!"
adverb
- Right, squarely, flat-out. She fell flop on the floor.
- With a flopping sound.
flop²
- /flɒp/ Canada, Northern England, UK
- /flɔp/ Australia, British, Scotland
- /flɑp/ US
- /flɒp/ New Zealand
- [flɔ̟p] ~ [flɞ̠p] New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɒp
Where it comes from
A variant capitalization of FLOP, a syllabic acronym of floating-point operations.
noun flops
- Abbreviation of floating-point operation The Correlator can perform 750 billion ‘flops’, or simple calculations, per second.
- One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed. The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8.
FLOP³
Where it comes from
A syllabic acronym from floating-point operation.
noun FLOPs
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Synonym of flop.
Similar: flop
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: collapse, fall through, dud, fall flat, right, washout, founder, bust, floating-point operation, crumble, breakdown, bump, defeat, setback, debacle, unravel
Translations
Every language
verb to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
| Español | desplomarse, colapsar, dejarse caer |
|---|---|
| Português | colapsar |
| Français | s'effondrer, s'affaler |
| Deutsch | plumpsen, hinplumpsen |
| Italiano | crollare |
| Română | prăbuși |
| Русский | плю́хаться pljúxatʹsja, плю́хнуться pljúxnutʹsja |
verb to fail completely, not to be successful at all
| Español | fracasar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 糊 hú, 翻車 /翻车 fānchē, 遇冷 yùlěng |
| Português | ser um fiasco, flopar |
| Français | faire un four, faire un bide, faire un flop, être un fiasco |
| Deutsch | versagen, scheitern, floppen, misslingen |
| Italiano | fare fiasco, fare un buco nell'acqua, fallire, mancare il traguardo |
| Română | eșua, fi un fiasco |
| Русский | провали́ться provalítʹsja, потерпе́ть неуда́чу poterpétʹ neudáču |
verb to stay, sleep or live in a place
| Français | crécher |
|---|
noun failure, especially in the entertainment industry
| 日本語 | 失敗作 shippaisaku, 大コケ ookoke |
|---|---|
| Português | fiasco, flop |
| Français | bide, fiasco, flop, four |
| Deutsch | Flop, Misserfolg, Reinfall, Pleite, Fehlschlag, Luftnummer |
| Italiano | fiasco, fallimento, insuccesso |
| Ελληνικά | πτώση ptósi |
| Русский | про́вал próval, неуда́ча neudáča, фиа́ско fiásko |
noun poned package of dung
| Deutsch | Kuhfladen |
|---|---|
| Italiano | sacco di letame, sacco di merda |
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