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Flop   /flɑp/   Listen
noun
Flop  n.  Act of flopping. (Colloq.)


verb
Flop  v. t.  (past & past part. flopped; pres. part. flopping)  
1.
To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
2.
To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. (Colloq.)


Flop  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.
2.
To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground. (Colloq.)





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"Flop" Quotes from Famous Books



... head over heels, as they did before a shower came on; but somehow he never could manage it. He liked most, though, to see them rising at the flies, as they sailed round and round under the shadow of the great oak, where the beetles fell flop into the water, and the green caterpillars let themselves down from the boughs by silk ropes for no reason at all; and then changed their foolish minds for no reason at all, either; and hauled themselves ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester
... would seek some other place for sympathy. Why, many a morning I have spoke light and happy words of cheer to him over the 'phone with a tongue as thick as a board-walk and the inside of my nob yearning to burst loose and flop around in the cool ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey
... Jackie. "Why, he sleeps just outside father's bed-room door, and sometimes in the night he walks up and down the corridor, and his tail goes flop up against the door. Once father ...
— A Pair of Clogs • Amy Walton
... flirtation, without the slightest danger, with any Gay Lothario in lavender socks who kind o' tickles them with his eyes and makes them giggle. But for myself, who have no mamma to meet, nor any desire to flop about with "flappers," piers are deadly things. Their great excitement is when the sea washes half of them away at a moment when, apparently, five thousand people living in boarding-houses had only just vacated them. And sometimes ...
— Over the Fireside with Silent Friends • Richard King
... William. I have an excellent memory for figures. Four thousand, three hundred and fifteen. Ah-h! See how instinct inspires him to flop always toward the water! ...
— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower


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