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flop

/ flop /
noun/verb

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
the act of throwing yourself down
"he landed on the bed with a great flop"
Type of:
descent
noun Sense 2
a complete failure
"the play was a dismal flop"
Type of:
failure
Kinds of:
turkey bomb dud
Derived:
break bust fall through fall flat founder
noun Sense 3
someone who is unsuccessful
Type of:
failure loser nonstarter
Domain:
colloquialism
verb Sense 4
fall suddenly and abruptly
Type of:
descend fall go down
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something with something
verb Sense 5
fall loosely
"He flopped into a chair"
Type of:
collapse fall in cave in
Derived:
collapse
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something with something
adverb Sense 6
with a flopping sound
"he tumbled flop into the mud"
noun Sense 7
an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
"this computer can perform a million flops per second"
Type of:
computer operation machine operation
adverb Sense 8
exactly
"he fell flop on his face"
Domain:
colloquialism
verb Sense 9
fail utterly; collapse
"The project foundered"
Type of:
fail go wrong miscarry
Derived:
bust
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Semantic Complexity
75%
Sense Count
9
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
26
Times Searched
3
Relationship Distribution

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Related Words

descent failure turkey bomb dud loser nonstarter descend fall go down collapse fall in