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)
- (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
- (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- (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.
- (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
- (transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
flop (plural flops)
- A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- Synonyms: dud, fiasco, turkey, box office bomb
- (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
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- Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.
- (slang) A flophouse.
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
flop
- Indicating the sound of something flopping.
Adverb
flop (not comparable)
- Right, squarely, flat-out.
- She fell flop on the floor.
- With a flopping sound.
See also
Related terms
Etymology 2
A variant capitalization of FLOP, a syllabic acronym of floating-point operations.
Noun
flop (plural flops)
- (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
- (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
Noun
flop m (plural floppen or flops, diminutive flopje n)
- A failure, something that went wrong
- short for floppydisk
Synonyms
- fiasco (1)
- mislukking (1)
- sof (1)
- diskette (2)
Descendants
- → Indonesian: flop (“failure”)
Verb
flop
- inflection of floppen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
flop m (plural flops)
- (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)
- (sports) flop: to strike about with something broad and flat, to rise and fall, to flap.
- failure, something that went wrong
- Synonym: kegagalan
- 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