From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
flop
n 1: an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers;
"this computer can perform a million flops per second"
[syn: floating-point operation]
2: someone who is unsuccessful [syn: dud, washout]
3: a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop" [syn:
bust]
4: the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed
with a great flop" [syn: collapse]
adv 1: with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"
2: exactly; "he fell flop on his face" [syn: right]
v 1: fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"
2: fall suddenly and abruptly
3: fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered" [syn: {fall
through}, fall flat, founder]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flop \Flop\, n.
Act of flopping. [Colloq.] --W. H. Russell.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flop \Flop\ (fl[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flopped (fl[o^]pt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Flopping.] [A variant of flap.]
1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail,
etc.; to flap.
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2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.]
--Fielding.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flop \Flop\ (fl[o^]p), v. i.
1. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish
with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall;
as, the brim of a hat flops.
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2. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and
unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
FLOP
1. An early system on the IBM 701.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1994-11-14)
2. Erroneous singular of FLOPS.