Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.
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A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
Well I know your little baby sister / She thinks that I'm a flop / But I guess that you know that it's true / I spent more time at the bottom than the top 1979, Lou Reed, “I Want to Boogie With You”, in The Bells:
The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop. 2005, Henry Stephenson, Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level:
The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands. 1996, John Patrick, John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning:
Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards). 2003, Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games:
Dung, as in cow-flop.
... cowpat or cow-flop, Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel. 2000, Dean King, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales, Henry Holt & Co., page 162:
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Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.
"Maybe as you think," he said, "because as I've the misfortune of an accidental slip on a cow-flop therefore I has the inability of an unborn babe, ... 1960, Winston Graham, Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787, Bodley Head, page 302:
"Cow flop in a neat package is still cow flop. What did Cable stand to gain from the flood?" 2003, John W. Billheimer, Drybone Hollow, St. Martin's Press, page 215:
(slang) A flophouse.
He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or slept in a flop. 2013, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Dangerous Games:
de Reinfall (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · mk у́тка (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · fi floppi (poker: the first three cards dealt face up) · nl vlaai (poned package of dung) · sv fiasko (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · de Versager (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · mk не́успех (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · nn flopp (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · it sacco di merda (poned package of dung) · nl afgang (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · nl drol (poned package of dung) · nl mislukking (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · de Brezen (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · it fiasco (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · fi lässähdys (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · it sacco di letame (poned package of dung) · mk фија́ско (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · fi epäonnistuminen (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · pl klapa (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · nl sisser (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · de Luftnummer (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · fr four (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · de Pleite (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · de Fehlschlag (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · it fallimento (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · nl fiasco (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · sv flopp (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · fr fiasco (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · ru про́вал (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · fr flop (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · nb flopp (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · pl niewypał (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · de Kuhfladen (poned package of dung) · pt flop (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · it insuccesso (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · ru фиа́ско (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · fr bide (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · mi mūhore (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · da fiasko (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · de Rohrkrepierer (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · de Versagen (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · de Flop (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · da flop (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · ru неуда́ча (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · nl sof (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · ja 失敗作 (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · fi fiasko (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · nl flop (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · fi läjä (poned package of dung) · pt fiasco (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · el πτώση (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · bg провал (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · de Misserfolg (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · ja 大コケ (failure, especially in the entertainment industry) · fi floppi (failure, especially in the entertainment industry)
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.
Meanings
(intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
There was [in the clock in Lyons Cathedral] a centre puppet of the Virgin Mary; and close to her, a small pigeon-hole, out of which another and a very ill-looking puppet made one of the most sudden plunges I ever saw accomplished: instantly flopping back again at sight of her, and banging his little door violently, after him. 1846, Charles Dickens, “Lyons, the Rhone, and the Goblin of Avignon”, in Pictures from Italy, London: […] Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, page 19:
He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.
(transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.
(informal, intransitive) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
(intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.
While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.
(intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
The brim of a hat flops.
(transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A's hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B's hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ).
(intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
[…] not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to flop," […] 1969, Howard E. Freeman, Norman R. Kurtz, America's Troubles: A Casebook on Social Conflict, Prentice-Hall, page 414:
They have opened up crypts and basements as immense pads where vagrant and impoverished hippies can flop for the night. 1973, Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal, Pantheon Books, page 135:
(transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
[…] in order to flop the image left-to-right, or all printing will appear reversed. 1986, Functional Photography, volumes 21-23, page 58:
The possibilities of this type of shot are almost limitless. By quartering the screen and duplicating and flopping the picture, a kaleidoscopic effect is achieved. 1968, Advertising Techniques, volumes 4-5, page 28:
(slang, transitive) To deny someone parole.
I've been incarcerated going on 9½ years. I have never been back on the streets or given a chance to prove myself to society. Every time I would meet the parole board they would flop me telling me I would be a threat to society. 1986 April 12, anonymous author, “One Day I'll Write a Book on This”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
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fr faire un flop (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · fr être un fiasco (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · cmn 糊 (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · fr crécher (to stay, sleep or live in a place) · ml പാളുക (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · ru плю́хнуться (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · de misslingen (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · de hinplumpsen (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · pt flopar (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · pt colapsar (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · fr s'effondrer (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · fi flopata (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · es fracasar (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · da lade sig dumpe ned (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · lt nudribti (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · eo falaĉi (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · lt dribti (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · nl afgaan (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · fi lyyhistyä (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · ru провали́ться (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · it fare un buco nell'acqua (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · it fare fiasco (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · fr s'affaler (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · es dejarse caer (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · nl neerploffen (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · ru потерпе́ть неуда́чу (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · ru плю́хаться (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · da falde (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · pt ser um fiasco (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · lt drėbtis (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · eo fiaski (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · de plumpsen (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · it crollare (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · mi mūhore (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · de floppen (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · it mancare il traguardo (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · ro eșua (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · ro fi un fiasco (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · nl inzakken (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · bg просвам се (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · nl floppen (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · da have fiasko (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · nl instorten (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · da plumpe ned (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · mk се стру́поли (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · de scheitern (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · fi romahtaa (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · fi läsähtää (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · cs propadnout (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · sv floppa (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · es desplomarse (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · it fallire (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · de versagen (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · cmn 翻車 /翻车 (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · es colapsar (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · cs zhroutit se (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · nl neerzijgen (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · fi lysähtää (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · fr faire un bide (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · fr faire un four (to fail completely, not to be successful at all) · nl neervallen (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · ro prăbuși (to fall heavily, due to lacking energy) · cmn 遇冷 (to fail completely, not to be successful at all)
The Correlator can perform 750 billion ‘flops’, or simple calculations, per second. 1993 August 17, New York Times, C8:
(qualifier:by confusion) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8. 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
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