belly flopper

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belly flopper - a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water

belly flop, belly whop, belly whopper

dive, diving - a headlong plunge into water

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a Self-absorbing Dan McNeil -- the Lake Calumet belly flopper holding down afternoons on WSCR-AM (670) -- got yet another excellent downtown writer to bite on a tedious recitation of his excessively public twilight zones.

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This forward-traveling, backwards-flipping water entry separates the belly floppers from the Louganises and is best performed in front of girls with outie bellybuttons wearing tube tops, smoking cigarettes with Cheeto-stained fingers.