EGAVE

flop

About 1.53 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
    He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.
  2. verb To cause to drop heavily.
    The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.
  3. verb To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
    The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
  4. verb To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
    It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.
  5. verb 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.
    The brim of a hat flops.
  6. verb To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
    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).
  7. verb To stay, sleep or live in a place.
  8. verb To flip; to reverse (an image).

Similar words

collapse fall through dud fall flat right washout founder bust floating-point operation crumble

Often followed by

is and in to of down with on circuit

Word family

flopped flopper floppers flopping flops

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