floppy
pronunciation
How to pronounce floppy in British English:
UK [ˈflɒpi]
How to pronounce floppy in American English:
US [ˈflɑpi]
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- Noun:
- a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer
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- Adjective:
- hanging limply
Word Origin
- floppy (adj.)
- 1858, "inclined to flop" [OED], from flop + -y (2). Floppy disc attested from 1972 (short form floppy by 1974).
Example
- 1. When was the last time you saw a floppy drive ?
- 2. They have found that people 's bones do much more than just provide scaffolding for their floppy innards .
- 3. Creative laptop bag made out of 42 recycled floppy disks .
- 4. Optical drives are the new floppy drives .
- 5. Data stored electronically decays . Many floppy disks from the early digital age are already unreadable .