flop

flop  (flp)

v. flopped, flop·ping, flops

v.intr.

1. To fall or lie down heavily and noisily.

2. To move about loosely or limply: The dog's ears flopped when it ran.

3. Informal To fail utterly: The play flopped.

4. Slang

a. To rest idly; lounge.

b. To go to bed.

v.tr.

To drop or lay (something) down heavily and noisily: flopped the steak onto a platter.

n.

1. The act of flopping.

2. The sound made when flopping.

3. Informal An utter failure.

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[Alteration of flap.]

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flopper n.

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flop

Verb

[flopping, flopped]

1. to bend, fall, or collapse loosely or carelessly

2. Informal to fail: his first big film flopped

3. to fall or move with a sudden noise

Noun

1. Informal a complete failure

2. the act of flopping [variant of flap]

floppy adj

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	flop - an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second" floating-point operation computer operation, machine operation - an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform
	2.	flop - someone who is unsuccessful dud, washout colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech nonstarter, unsuccessful person, loser, failure - a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
	3.	flop - a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop" bust, fizzle failure - an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose; "the surprise party was a complete failure" bomb, dud, turkey - an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
	4.	flop - the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop" collapse descent - the act of changing your location in a downward direction
Verb	1.	flop - fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair" cave in, collapse, fall in, give way, founder, give, break - break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
	2.	flop - fall suddenly and abruptly come down, descend, go down, fall - move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
	3.	flop - fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered" fall flat, fall through, founder go wrong, miscarry, fail - be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"
Adv.	1.	flop - with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"
	2.	flop - exactly; "he fell flop on his face" right colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

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flop

verb 1. slump, fall, drop, collapse, sink, tumble, topple

verb 2. hang down, hang, dangle, sag, droop, hang limply

verb 3. (Informal) fail, close, bomb U.S., Canad. (slang) fold (informal) founder, fall short, fall flat, come to nothing, come unstuck, misfire, go belly-up (slang) go down like a lead balloon (informal) << OPPOSITE succeed

noun 4. (Informal) failure, disaster, loser, fiasco, debacle, washout (informal) cockup Brit. (slang) nonstarter << OPPOSITE success

Translations

flop [flɔp] n → fracaso

vi (= fail) → fracasar

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flop [flɔp] n → fiasco m

vi (= fail) → faire fiasco (= fall); s'affaler, s'effondrer

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flop [flɔp] n → Reinfall m

vi (play, book) → durchfallen;

(fall) → sich fallen lassen;

(scheme) → ein Reinfall sein

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flop [flɔp] n → fiasco

vi (= fail) → far fiasco