flop

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
2. (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
3. (informal, intransitive) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
4. (intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
5. (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.
6. (transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
7. (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
8. (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
9. (slang, transitive) To deny someone parole.

Noun

1. A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
2. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
3. The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
4. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
5. (slang) A flophouse.

Intj

Indicating the sound of something flopping.

Adv

1. (not-comparable) Right, squarely, flat-out.
2. (not-comparable) With a flopping sound.

Noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
2. One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.

Synonyms

failure

dud

flap

plump

washout

collapse

fail

fall

thud

fiasco

fall flat

drop

floating-point operation

founder

flop around

right

fizzle

plop

decline

fall through

bomb

💣

bust

slap

blow

fuckup

flunk

plump down

lose

turkey

fan

slump

wave

👋

screwup

go kaput

break down

falter

debacle

loser

leap

due

clap

👏

baldly

immediately

go down

case

forthrightly

forthright

dive

flush

directly

Translations

fiasco

fiasco

fracaso

bide

tomber

Reinfall

Pleite

plumpsen

afgang

se débattre

échec

s’affaler

πτώση

cadere

insuccesso

Pronounced as (IPA)

/flɒp/

Etymology

Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound

Sentences

The show was a flop from the very start .