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flop

English

  1. 🔊 the act of throwing yourself down
    “he landed on the bed with a great flop”
  2. 🔊 a complete failure
    “the play was a dismal flop”
  3. 🔊 someone who is unsuccessful
  4. 🔊 an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
    “this computer can perform a million flops per second”
  5. 🔊 with a flopping sound
    “he tumbled flop into the mud”
  6. 🔊 exactly
    “he fell flop on his face”
  7. 🔊 fall suddenly and abruptly
  8. 🔊 fall loosely
    “He flopped into a chair”
  9. 🔊 fail utterly
    “The project foundered”

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