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/ˈflɒpəʊvə/ · noun
(uncountable) The action of flopping over; (countable) an instance of this; also, a thing which flops over..
A variation of this is the flopover title. In the latter case, the cards are hinged or supported on hooks so that one card can be dropped in front of the camera, and subsequent ones flop over like the leaves of a book held sideways.
I prefer 'Mt. Fuji' [a variety of phlox], a good strong white that resists flopover from summer storms and blends well with almost all late summer flowers.
[W]hip the egg whites until they look "sudsy" […] Your goal is to incorporate and have dissolved all the sugar by the time the meringue holds a stiff peak—one that, except for a tiny "flopover" at the very top, stands firm and tall right where you lifted it.
His hairdo, a kind of careless flaxen flopover that should come with a letterman jacket, upon closer examination had a deliberate architecture to it: there was some definite concealing going on. […] Dude was thirty-seven if he was a day.
My always-nervous stomach performed a flopover.
Now in the light of this history we see this sudden flopover in the Maritime Law Association dominated by the shipowners and their lawyers.
Our surveys have not shown to us that there is any significant flopover, maybe 5 to 7 percent. The highest I have ever seen is the 7 percent figure of Amtrak's passengers that would ride the bus if that was the only way.
Use flopover when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Flopover means (uncountable) The action of flopping over; (countable) an instance of this; also, a thing which flops over..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A variation of this is the flopover title. In the latter case, the cards are hinged or supported on hooks so that one card can be dropped in front of the camera, and subsequent ones flop over like the leaves of a book held sideways.
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