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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



... flop from one to the other with lightning rapidity. We are too completely superior to reason to have any respect for or reliance on it. Do you think I try reason on my husband when he is in the wrong in his ...
— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter
... 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 ...
— A Pair of Clogs • Amy Walton
... from afar: yet she never had difficulty with any of them—till August, alas. That was my fault, for bringing in a wild man from the woods, who could not be counted on or ruled like the rest, but would flop around in his uncircumcised way and break things. I should never forgive myself for that, if I did not hope to get matters right—and more so than they ...
— A Pessimist - In Theory and Practice • Robert Timsol
... have hurt you. None of these flop-over Janes for me!... An' I'll give you a hunch, Pretty Eyes. You might have run acrost a ...
— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey
... already boiled—my neighbors and myself lived on cracked ice, ice-cream, and destructive cold drinks. I do not myself mind hot weather in the daytime, but hot nights are killing. I can't sleep. I toss about for hours, and then, for the sake of variety, I flop, but sleep cometh not. My debts double, and my income seems to sizzle away under the influence of a hot, sleepless night; and it was just here that a certain awful thing saved me from the insanity which is a certain result ...
— Ghosts I have Met and Some Others • John Kendrick Bangs


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