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Yes. The word flop is a Scrabble US word. The word flop is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (1 found)

FLOP,

3-letter words (3 found)

FOP,LOP,POL,

2-letter words (4 found)

LO,OF,OP,PO,

You can make 8 words from flop according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of flop

flop lfop folp oflp lofp olfp flpo lfpo fplo pflo lpfo plfo fopl ofpl fpol pfol opfl pofl lopf olpf lpof plof oplf polf

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Definitions and meaning of flop

flop

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /flɒp/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /flɑp/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /flɔp/
  • Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

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

Verb

flop (third-person singular simple present flops, present participle flopping, simple past and past participle flopped)

  1. (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
  2. (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
  3. (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
  4. (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
  5. (intransitive) 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.
  6. (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
  7. (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
  8. (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
  9. (transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole.
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Translations

Noun

flop (plural flops)

  1. A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
  2. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
    Synonyms: dud, fiasco, turkey, box office bomb
  3. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
  4. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
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  5. (slang) A flophouse.
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Translations

Interjection

flop

  1. Indicating the sound of something flopping.

Adverb

flop (not comparable)

  1. Right, squarely, flat-out.
    She fell flop on the floor.
  2. With a flopping sound.
See also
  • aflop

Related terms

  • flip-flop

Etymology 2

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

Noun

flop (plural flops)

  1. (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
  2. (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
Alternative forms
  • (unit of processing speed): FLOPS
  • (floating-point operation): FLOP
Derived terms

References

  • “FLOP, n2.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2012.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English flop. See also flap.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

flop m (plural floppen or flops, diminutive flopje n)

  1. A failure, something that went wrong
  2. short for floppydisk

Synonyms

  • fiasco (1)
  • mislukking (1)
  • sof (1)
  • diskette (2)

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: flop (“failure”)

Verb

flop

  1. inflection of floppen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

  • plof

French

Pronunciation

Noun

flop m (plural flops)

  1. (colloquial) flop (failure)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch flop (“failure”), from English flop, flap.

  • The sport sense is Semantic loan from English flop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflɔp̚/
  • Rhymes: -flɔp, -lɔp, -ɔp, -p

Noun

flop (first-person possessive flopku, second-person possessive flopmu, third-person possessive flopnya)

  1. (sports) flop: to strike about with something broad and flat, to rise and fall, to flap.
  2. failure, something that went wrong
    Synonym: kegagalan
  3. high jump

Further reading

  • “flop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Source: wiktionary.org