fall heavily, fall with a thud; plunk down; flap back and forth; fail (Slang)
act of flopping, act of falling heavily; plunk, thud; huge failure (Slang)
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Flop Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
flop
\flop\ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. flopped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. flopping.] [a variant of flap.]
1. to clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
2. to turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [colloq.]
flop
\flop\ (?), v. i. 1. to strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
2. to fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground. [colloq.]
flop
\flop\, n. act of flopping. [colloq.] h. russell.
flop
n
1. an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second" [syn: floating-point operation]
2. (informal) someone who is unsuccessful [syn: dud, washout]
3. a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop" [syn: bust]
4. the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop" [syn: collapse]
adv 1: with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud" 2: (informal) exactly; "he fell flop on his face" [syn: right]
v 1: fall loosely; "he flopped into a chair" 2: fall suddenly and abruptly 3: fail utterly; collapse; "the project foundered" [syn: fall through , fall flat, founder]
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Flop, (v.)
Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.
The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce, 1911 (About)Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.
1. fail; 2. failure; 3. place to bed down
diving incorrectly into water with the stomach breaking the water
annoying, foolish person; a jerk (referring to a flaccid penis)
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Noun
1. an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second"
(synonym) floating-point operation
(hypernym) computer operation, machine operation
2. someone who is unsuccessful
(synonym) dud, washout
(hypernym) failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person
(classification) colloquialism
3. a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop"
(synonym) bust
(hypernym) failure
(hyponym) turkey, bomb, dud
(derivation) fall through, fall flat, founder
4. the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop"
(synonym) collapse
(hypernym) descent
Verb
1. fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"
(hypernym) collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
(derivation) collapse
2. fall suddenly and abruptly
(hypernym) descend, fall, go down, come down
3. fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"
(synonym) fall through, fall flat, founder
(hypernym) fail, go wrong, miscarry
(derivation) bust
Adverb
1. with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"
2. exactly; "he fell flop on his face"
(synonym) right
(classification) colloquialism
Flop Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
Flop Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Terms
- Flop, a box office bomb in the entertainment world
- Flop, as verb or noun, referring to flophouse, cheap rooms in a transients' hotel
- Flop (poker), a poker term describing the first three cards dealt to the board
- Flip-flop (electronics), the bistable multivibrator, a circuit with two stable states
- Flopped image, a type of mirror image in photography, graphic design and printing
- Flop (algebraic geometry) a birational transformation
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In computing, FLOPS (or flops or flop/s, for floating-point operations per second) is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second. Since the final S stands for "second", conservative speakers consider "FLOPS" as both the singular and plural of the term, although the singular "FLOP" is frequently encountered. Alternatively, the singular FLOP (or flop) is used as an abbreviation for "FLoating-point OPeration", and a flop count is a count of these operations (e.g., required by a given algorithm or computer program). In this context, "flops" is simply the plural rather than a rate.
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Flop Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
In a game of hold ‘em, the three cards dealt face-up in the center of the table.
