flop

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
    someone who is unsuccessful
    a complete failure
    the act of throwing yourself down
  • Verb:
    fall loosely
    fall suddenly and abruptly
    fail utterly; collapse
  • Adverb:
    with a flopping sound
    exactly

Word Origin

flop (v.)
c. 1600, "to flap," probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound. Sense of "fall or drop heavily" is 1836; that of "collapse, fail" is 1919; though the figurative noun sense of "a failure" is recorded from 1893. Related: Flopped; flopping.
flop (n.)
1823, "act of flopping; any action that produces the sound 'flop;' the sound itself," from flop (v.). Figurative sense of "a failure; that which is a failure" is by 1893, from the notion of a sudden break-down or collapse. Extended form flopperoo attested from 1936. The Fosbury flop high-jumping technique (1968) is so called in reference to U.S. athlete Dick Fosbury (b.1947), who used it to win the 1968 Olympic gold medal.

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Example

1. The overhaul of the american retail bank may flop .
2. It would be a commercial flop .
3. It was a resounding flop .
4. An american television service in arabic has been a flop .
5. But then came copenhagen in 2009 , which was a flop .

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