flop

Meanings

Plural: flops

Noun

• an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
  • "this computer can perform a million flops per second"
• someone who is unsuccessful
• a complete failure
  • "the play was a dismal flop"
• the act of throwing yourself down
  • "he landed on the bed with a great flop"
• A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
• A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
• The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
• A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
• A flophouse.
• One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
• Abbreviation of floating-point operation.

Verb

• fall loosely
  • "He flopped into a chair"
• fall suddenly and abruptly
• fail utterly; collapse
• To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
• To cause to drop heavily.
• To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
• To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
• 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.
• To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
• To stay, sleep or live in a place.
• To flip; to reverse (an image).
• To deny someone parole.

Adverb

• with a flopping sound
  • "he tumbled flop into the mud"
• exactly
  • "he fell flop on his face"

Intj

• Indicating the sound of something flopping.

Adv

• Right, squarely, flat-out.
• With a flopping sound.

Synonyms

box office bomb, bust, collapse, dud, fall flat, fall through, fiasco, fizzle, floating-point operation, founder, right, turkey, washout

Related Words

aflop, flip-flop

Anagrams of flop