Usually means: High jump technique, back-first.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Fosbury flop)

noun:  (athletics) A high jump in which the jumper leaps backward and arches the back over the bar, thereby lowering the jumper's center of gravity below the body while it is aloft.

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