flop

Plural: flops

Noun

• an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
  • "this computer can perform a million flops per second"
• someone who is unsuccessful
• a complete failure
  • "the play was a dismal flop"
• the act of throwing yourself down
  • "he landed on the bed with a great flop"
• A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
• A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
• The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
• A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
• A flophouse.
• One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
• Abbreviation of floating-point operation.

Verb

Verb Forms: flopped, flopping, flops

• To fall or drop heavily and noisily.
• fall loosely
  • "He flopped into a chair"
• fall suddenly and abruptly
• fail utterly; collapse
• To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
• To cause to drop heavily.
• To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
• To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
• 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.
• To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
• To stay, sleep or live in a place.
• To flip; to reverse (an image).
• To deny someone parole.

Adverb

• with a flopping sound
  • "he tumbled flop into the mud"
• exactly
  • "he fell flop on his face"

Intj

• Indicating the sound of something flopping.

Adv

• Right, squarely, flat-out.
• With a flopping sound.

Examples

• 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).
• He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.
• His ambitious seven-letter word choice threatened to flop if not challenged correctly.
• It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.
• She fell flop on the floor.
• The brim of a hat flops.
• The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
• The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.
• While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.

Synonyms

bust, collapse, dud, fall flat, fall through, fizzle, floating-point operation, founder, right, washout, box office bomb, fiasco, turkey

Related Words

aflop, flip-flop

Anagrams of flop