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flop
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[ verb ] fall loosely
Examples "He flopped into a chair" Used in print (W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)His head flopped back . (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)Seems like she 's willing , but the male just flops around all day like the bashful boy who took Jeannie_May behind the barn and_then did n't know what to do , and the people at the zoo have n't got any vulture chicks to show for their trouble . Related terms |
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[ verb ] fall suddenly and abruptly
Used in print (Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)McBride staggered into the street , flopped sprawling in the stinging dust . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (computer science) an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
Synonyms Examples "this computer can perform a million flops per second" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (informal) someone who is unsuccessful
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[ verb ] fail utterly; collapse
Synonyms Examples "The project foundered" Related terms |
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[ adverb ] (informal) exactly
Synonyms Examples "he fell flop on his face" Related terms |
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[ adverb ] with a flopping sound
Examples "he tumbled flop into the mud" |
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