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(noun) the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop" |
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Synonyms: collapse |
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Related Words: descent |
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(adverb) with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud" |
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(verb) fall suddenly and abruptly |
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Related Words: come down, descend, fall, go down |
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(verb) fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair" |
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Related Words: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way |
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(noun) a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop" |
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Synonyms: bust |
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Related Words: bomb, dud, failure, turkey |
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(noun) (informal) someone who is unsuccessful |
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Synonyms: dud, washout |
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Related Words: failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person |
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(adverb) (informal) exactly; "he fell flop on his face" |
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Synonyms: right |
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(noun) an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second" |
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Synonyms: floating-point operation |
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Related Words: computer operation, machine operation |
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(verb) fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered" |
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Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, founder |
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Related Words: fail, go wrong, miscarry |
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