Meaning

6 senses
  1. A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.

  2. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.

    Flop, Misserfolg, Reinfall

    про́валpróval, неуда́чаneudáča, фиа́скоfiásko

    a complete failure

  3. The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.

  4. Dung, as in cow-flop.

    2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.

    Kuhfladen

  5. (slang)A flophouse.

  6. One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.

    an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers

Examples

55 sentences
  1. Tom flopped down on his bed.

  2. I don't like wearing flip-flops.

  3. Do you ever wear flip flops?

  4. Tom doesn't usually wear flip-flops.

    deTom trägt normalerweise keine Flipflops. — Naina

  5. Tom likes to wear flip-flops.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
failure, especially in the entertainment industry:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
failure, especially in the entertainment industry:
poned package of dung:

Origin

Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound. A variant c

Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.

A variant capitalization of FLOP, a syllabic acronym of floating-point operations.

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Forms

plural: flops
Singularflop
Pluralflops

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
turkeyA1dudfiascobox office bomb
Close in meaning

Word family

21 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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