flop

== English == === 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. Dung, as in cow-flop. 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. (slang) A flophouse. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Chinese: 胡蘿蔔 / 胡萝卜 (húluóbo) ===== Translations ===== ==== Interjection ==== flop Indicating the sound of something flopping. ==== Adverb ==== flop (not comparable) Right, squarely, flat-out. 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) (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation. Alternative form: FLOP (by confusion, computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed. Alternative forms: flops, FLOPS ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === References === “FLOP, n2.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2012. == Danish == === Etymology === From English flop. Attested since 1966. === Noun === flop n (singular definite floppet, plural indefinite flop) (informal) flop (failure) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== floppe === References === “flop” in Den Danske Ordbog == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from English flop. See also flap. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔp === 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 (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative imperative === Anagrams === plof == French == === Pronunciation === === Noun === flop m (plural flops) (colloquial) flop (failure) == Indonesian == === Etymology === From Dutch flop, from English flop, perhaps a variant of flap. The sport sense is semantic loan from English. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /flop/ Rhymes: -op Hyphenation: flop === Noun === flop (plural flop-flop) a failure, something that went wrong Synonym: kegagalan flop (to strike about with something broad and flat, to rise and fall, to flap) high jump === References === “flop”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016