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floppy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | diskette, floppy disk |
| Type of | disc, disk, magnetic disc, magnetic disk |
floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | flop |
a spaniel with floppy ears.
Examples of floppy
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None of this is to imply, however, that e-mail is on its way to floppy disk-dom.
From the businessweek.com
The floppy footwear, once contained to the beach, can now be spotted year-round.
From the thenewstribune.com
He also wore a huge, floppy overcoat long before shabby-chic became fashionable.
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A stuffed teddy bear and floppy-eared rabbit sit on top of her floral bedspread.
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Gently, he plucked out a thick volume of poems he bound in soft, floppy leather.
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Disgusting floppy leaves, Saturday-night vomit colours in the floral department.
From the independent.co.uk
This not only happens in dogs with floppy ears but can occur in any dog or cats.
From the bostonherald.com
Floppy disks were an easy call, as audio and video files overwhelmed the format.
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Children came from blocks away to feed the bunny snacks and pet her floppy ears.
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- Diskette: a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer; "floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price"
- Hanging limply; "a spaniel with floppy ears"
- Flappy is a puzzle game by dB-Soft in the same vein as the Eggerland series and Sokoban that is obscure outside of Japan. It features Flappy, a somewhat mole-like character who must complete each level by pushing a blue stone from its starting place to the blue tile destination.
- (Floppies) A floppy disk is a data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible ("floppy") magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell.
- A floppy disk; Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible
- (floppiness) The characteristic or quality of being floppy
- A 3.5 inch square rigid disk which holds data. (so named for the earlier 5.25 and 8 inch disks that were flexible).
- An increasingly rare storage medium consisting of a thin magnetic film disk housed in a protective sleeve.
- An extremely common type of removable disk. Floppies do not hold too much data, but most computers are capable of reading them. Note though that there are different competing format used for floppies, so that a floppy written by one type of computer might not directly work on another. ...
