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How to pronounce flop in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms right


he fell flop on his face.
Type Words
Synonyms fall flat, fall through, founder
Type of miscarry, fail, go wrong
Type Words
Synonyms dud, washout
Type of failure, unsuccessful person, nonstarter, loser
Type Words
Synonyms bust, fizzle
Type of failure
Has types turkey, dud, bomb


the play was a dismal flop.
Type Words
Synonyms collapse
Type of descent
Derivation floppy


he landed on the bed with a great flop.
Type Words
Synonyms floating-point operation
Type of computer operation, machine operation


this computer can perform a million flops per second.
Type Words
Type of give, give way, break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder


He flopped into a chair.
Type Words
Type of go down, descend, fall, come down

Examples of flop

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A tell-tale sign it's in too much shade will be if the stems flop to the ground.
From the timesunion.com
I just want to see politicians flop in profound discomfort while smelling fishy.
From the theatlantic.com
Flop forward, because for swimming like a swan, you'll need to be on your belly.
From the washingtonpost.com
On the other side, men flop, gasping like fish out of water on the exposed sand.
From the washingtonpost.com
My husband's raised bed, so bounteous two years ago, was a total flop last year.
From the thestate.com
Yes, it's true that your opponent will often pick up the blinds before the flop.
From the al.com
It was a common ritual for him to flop down on a nearby rug and keep me company.
From the post-gazette.com
The Newton was a flop, and Acorn was wound up in 1999-the year that ARM floated.
From the economist.com
Cremins has said he sought a psychiatrist's help recovering from that flip-flop.
From the charlotteobserver.com
More examples
  • Floating-point operation: an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second"
  • Fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"
  • With a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"
  • Someone who is unsuccessful
  • Fall suddenly and abruptly
  • Right: exactly; "he fell flop on his face"
  • A list of films produced in Argentina in 1990: * at the Internet Movie Database
  • And One is a German new wave, synthpop and EBM band founded by Steve Naghavi and Chris Ruiz in 1989.
  • In algebraic geometry, flips and flops are codimension-2 surgery operations arising in the minimal model program, given by blowing up along a relative canonical ring. ...