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flop

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flop in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. a complete failure
    "the play was a dismal flop"
    flop  bust  fizzle 
  2. the act of throwing yourself down
    "he landed on the bed with a great flop"
    flop  collapse 
  3. someone who is unsuccessful
    flop  dud  washout 
  4. an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
    "this computer can perform a million flops per second"
    floating-point operation  flop 
verb
  1. fail utterly; collapse
    "The project foundered"
    fall through  fall flat  founder  flop 
  2. fall suddenly and abruptly
    flop 
  3. fall loosely
    "He flopped into a chair"
    flop 
adverb
  1. with a flopping sound
    "he tumbled flop into the mud"
    flop  flop 
  2. exactly
    "he fell flop on his face"
    right  flop  right  flop 
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