flopped; flopping
1
: to swing or move loosely : flap
2
: to throw or move oneself in a heavy, clumsy, or relaxed manner
flopped into the chair
3
: to change or turn suddenly
4
: to go to bed
a place to flop at night
5
: to fail completely
the play flopped
: to move or drop heavily or noisily : cause to flop
flopped the bundles down
flopper
noun
plural flops
: a unit of measure for calculating the speed of a computer equal to one floating-point operation per second
Supplied by IBM, with a billion flops (floating point operations per second) and a capacity to expand to 60 billion flops with the addition of other processors and memory, it will be among the 10 most sophisticated computers in the world.—
Eleanor Wilson
—usually used in combinationEleanor Wilsongigaflop
A GPU [=graphics processing unit] can deliver hundreds of billions of operations per second—some GPUs more than a teraflop, or a trillion operations per second—while requiring only slightly more electrical power and cooling than a CPU.—Andrea Di Blas et al.
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Examples of flop in a Sentence
Verb
He flopped down onto the bed.
She flopped into the chair with a sigh.
All of their attempts have flopped miserably.
The curtains were flopping around in the breeze.
Noun (1)
The movie was a total flop.
It fell to the ground with a flop.
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Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
During this two-year period, a mix of crafty and bumbling crooks took advantage of a tax loophole that — not unlike the plot hatched in Mel Brooks’ The Producers — allowed labels to write off losses on albums that had supposedly flopped.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2024
Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
The movies seemed to be trying to top each other in cataclysmic opening weekend grosses, resulting in an unprecedented losing streak of seven consecutive flops.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
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Verb
The pre-flop raiser had pocket Aces (AA) and flopped top set.
—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
During this two-year period, a mix of crafty and bumbling crooks took advantage of a tax loophole that — not unlike the plot hatched in Mel Brooks’ The Producers — allowed labels to write off losses on albums that had supposedly flopped.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
And so Dunkin’ (nee Dunkin’ Donuts) is yet another cog in the machinery of retail consolidation that puts the big boys on top and makes mom and pops flops.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
The movies seemed to be trying to top each other in cataclysmic opening weekend grosses, resulting in an unprecedented losing streak of seven consecutive flops.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Flop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flop. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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flop
1 of 2 verb
flopped; flopping
1
: to swing or bounce loosely : flap about
a hat brim flopping
2
a
: to throw oneself down in a heavy, clumsy, or relaxed manner
flopped into the chair
b
: to throw or drop suddenly and heavily or noisily
flopped the bundles down with a thud
3
: to fail completely
the play flopped
flop
2 of 2 noun1
: an act or sound of flopping
2
: a complete failure : dud
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