flop
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒp
[edit] Etymology 1
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound
[edit] Verb
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to flop (third-person singular simple present flops, present participle flopping, simple past and past participle flopped)
- To fall heavily, because lacking energy.
- He flopped down in front of the television as he was exhausted from work.
- To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
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[edit] Translations
to fall heavily, because lacking energy
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to fail completely, not to be successful at all
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[edit] Noun
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flop (plural flops)
- An incident of a certain type of 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.
- 1996: John Patrick, John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning
- The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands.
- 2003: Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games
- Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards).
- 2005: Henry Stephenson, Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level
- The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop.
- 1996: John Patrick, John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning
- A place to stay, sleep or live. See flophouse
- 1973, Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal, Pantheon Books, page 135,
- They have opened up crypts and basements as immense pads where vagrant and impoverished hippies can flop for the night..
- 1969, Howard E. Freeman, Norman R. Kurtz, America's Troubles: A Casebook on Social Conflict, Prentice-Hall, Page 414,
- ... is not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to flop," it ....
- 2006, Ray Douglas, America Is Headed for a Fall, AuthorHouse, Page 53,
- Hugh and the boys playing in beautiful settings with beautiful young babes was a far cry from grungy hippies doing it in a filthy flop house, ...
- 1973, Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal, Pantheon Books, page 135,
- A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
- 2000, Dean King, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales, Henry Holt & Co., Page 162,
- ... cowpat or cow-flop, Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel.
- 1960, Winston Graham, Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787, Bodley Head, Page 302,
- "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, ...
- 2003, John W. Billheimer, Drybone Hollow, St. Martin's Press, Page 215,
- "Cow flop in a neat package is still cow flop. What did Cable stand to gain from the flood?"
- 2000, Dean King, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales, Henry Holt & Co., Page 162,
[edit] Synonyms
- (complete failure) dud, fiasco, turkey
- (specifically in entertainment) box office bomb
[edit] Translations
failure, especially in the entertainment industry
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[edit] Adverb
flop (not comparable)
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- Right, squarely, flat-out.
- With a flopping sound.
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[edit] Etymology 2
Syllabic abbreviation of floating point + operation.
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flop (plural flops)
- (computing) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.
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[edit] Noun
flop m. (plural floppen, diminutive flopje, diminutive plural flopjes)
- A failure, something that went wrong
[edit] Synonyms
- fiasco n.
- mislukking
- sisser m.
- sof
[edit] Verb form
imperative and singular present imperfect forms of floppen

