flop
Part of speech: verb
noun
intj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
hobbies
lifestyle
poker
sports
Etymology: Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.
Inflected forms:
form: flops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flopped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: flops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.
There was [in the clock in Lyons Cathedral] a centre puppet of the Virgin Mary; and close to her, a small pigeon-hole, out of which another and a very ill-looking puppet made one of the most sudden plunges I ever saw accomplished: instantly flopping back again at sight of her, and banging his little door violently, after him.
gloss: To cause to drop heavily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.
gloss: To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
gloss: To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.
While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The brim of a hat flops.
gloss: To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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).
gloss: To stay, sleep or live in a place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: […] not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to flop," […]
They have opened up crypts and basements as immense pads where vagrant and impoverished hippies can flop for the night.
gloss: To flip; to reverse (an image).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
[…] in order to flop the image left-to-right, or all printing will appear reversed.
gloss: To deny someone parole.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
pos: noun
gloss: A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
pos: noun
examples: 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
gloss: The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
pos: noun
examples: The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands.
Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards).
The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop.
gloss: Dung, as in cow-flop.
pos: noun
examples: "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, ...
... cowpat or cow-flop, Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel.
"Cow flop in a neat package is still cow flop. What did Cable stand to gain from the flood?"
2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.
gloss: A flophouse.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or slept in a flop.
gloss: Indicating the sound of something flopping.
pos: intj
examples: "One step. Steady. Another step. Flop! I got him!"
gloss: Right, squarely, flat-out.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: She fell flop on the floor.
gloss: With a flopping sound.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Related words: aflop
flip-flop
Derived words: bellyflop
flop down
flop for
flophouse
flopover
flopper
floppingly
floppy
floptastic
fly and flop
mop-and-flop
that's the way the mop flops
backflop
belly flop
flippy-flop
flobber
flop account
flopdom
flop-eared
flop era
flopless
flopperoo
flop style
flop sweat
flopsy
Flopsy
flop tube
flopulist
flopwing
Fosbury flop
kerflop
postflop
pre-flop
preflop
Rabi flop
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