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Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : flop |
Phonetic Transcription : flɒp |
Definition of flop
Origin :- c.1600, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound. Sense of "fall or drop heavily" is 1836, that of "collapse, fail" is 1919; though the figurative noun sense of "a failure" is recorded from 1893. Related: Flopped; flopping.
- noun miserable failure
- verb fall limply, collapse
- verb fail miserably
- It was because as a manager of his financial affairs Dorothy was a flop.
- Extract from : « The Odyssey of Sam Meecham » by Charles E. Fritch
- She looks at it once, and begins to flop her arms and take on again.
- Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford
- But somehow, Mrs. Bob continued to flop the broken wing, and to elude them.
- Extract from : « Plantation Sketches » by Margaret Devereux
- At this he spread out his arms and dropped them with a flop upon his knees.
- Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
- Sim could not swim, and he began to flop about in the wildest and most unreasonable manner.
- Extract from : « Down The River » by Oliver Optic
- But except for that—if Flop hadn't got frightened, it would be nice, wouldn't it?
- Extract from : « A Christmas Posy » by Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
- I can't think why you flop about so helplessly, like a bit of seaweed.
- Extract from : « The Longest Journey » by E. M. Forster
- Your flop in the bed sounded as though you were a real mermaid!
- Extract from : « Madge Morton's Victory » by Amy D.V. Chalmers
- Don't let him flop, though, or he'll lick all the blacking off your boots.
- Extract from : « The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition » by Rudyard Kipling
- I remember now; you started as an ultra-Calvinist, and came over with a flop.
- Extract from : « The Brentons » by Anna Chapin Ray
Synonyms for flop
- bomb
- bust
- close
- come apart
- come to nothing
- dangle
- debacle
- disaster
- droop
- drop
- dud
- fall flat
- fall short
- fiasco
- flag
- flap
- flounder
- flummox
- flutter
- fold
- founder
- hang
- jerk
- lemon
- lop
- loser
- miscarriage
- miscarry
- misfire
- nonstarter
- quiver
- sag
- slump
- stagger
- teeter
- topple
- toss
- totter
- tumble
- wash out
- washout
- wave
- wiggle
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