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Flop
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- 1 Right, squarely, flat-out. not-comparable
"She fell flop on the floor."
- 2 With a flopping sound. not-comparable
- 1 in a face down manner wordnet
- 2 with a flopping sound wordnet
- 1 Indicating the sound of something flopping.
""One step. Steady. Another step. Flop! I got him!""
- 1 A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
- 2 Abbreviation of floating-point operation. abbreviation, alt-of
"The Correlator can perform 750 billion ‘flops’, or simple calculations, per second."
- 3 Synonym of flop.
- 4 the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink wordnet
- 5 A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
"Well I know your little baby sister / She thinks that I'm a flop / But I guess that you know that it's true / I spent more time at the bottom than the top"
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- 6 One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
"The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8."
- 7 a complete failure wordnet
- 8 The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
"The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands."
- 9 someone who is unsuccessful wordnet
- 10 Dung, as in cow-flop.
""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, ..."
- 11 an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers wordnet
- 12 A flophouse. slang
"He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or slept in a flop."
- 1 To fall heavily due to lack of energy. intransitive
"He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work."
- 2 fall suddenly and abruptly wordnet
- 3 To cause to drop heavily. transitive
"The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on."
- 4 fall loosely wordnet
- 5 To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.). informal, intransitive
"The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract."
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- 6 fail utterly; collapse wordnet
- 7 To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer) intransitive
"It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year."
- 8 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. intransitive
"The brim of a hat flops."
- 9 To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop. transitive
"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)."
- 10 To stay, sleep or live in a place. intransitive, slang
"[…] not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to flop," […]"
- 11 To flip; to reverse (an image). transitive
"The possibilities of this type of shot are almost limitless. By quartering the screen and duplicating and flopping the picture, a kaleidoscopic effect is achieved."
- 12 To deny someone parole. slang, transitive
"I've been incarcerated going on 9½ years. I have never been back on the streets or given a chance to prove myself to society. Every time I would meet the parole board they would flop me telling me I would be a threat to society."
Etymology
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound
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.
A syllabic acronym from floating-point operation.
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