Meaning

(intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
2. (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
3. (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
4. (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
5. (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
6. (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
7. (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
8. (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).

Example Sentences

He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.

There was [in the clock in Lyons Cathedral] a centre puppet of the Virgin Mary; and close to her, a small pigeon-hole, out of which another and a very ill-looking puppet made one of the most sudden plunges I ever saw accomplished: instantly flopping back again at sight of her, and banging his little door violently, after him.

The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.

The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.

It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.

While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.

The brim of a hat flops.

Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A's hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B's hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ).

Word Forms

• flops
• flopping
• flopped

Synonyms for flop

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