flop

1. (noun) the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop"
Synonyms: collapse
Related Words: descent

2. (adverb) with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"

3. (verb) fall suddenly and abruptly
Related Words: come down, descend, fall, go down

4. (verb) fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"
Related Words: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way

5. (noun) a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop"
Synonyms: bust
Related Words: bomb, dud, failure, turkey

6. (noun) (informal) someone who is unsuccessful
Synonyms: dud, washout
Related Words: failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person

7. (adverb) (informal) exactly; "he fell flop on his face"
Synonyms: right

8. (noun) an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second"
Synonyms: floating-point operation
Related Words: computer operation, machine operation

9. (verb) fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"
Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, founder
Related Words: fail, go wrong, miscarry



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