Usually means: Jumping flat into water, painfully.
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  1. belly-flop: Vocabulary.com
  2. belly-flop: Wordnik
  3. belly-flop: Wiktionary
  4. belly-flop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. belly-flop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. belly-flop: Dictionary.com
  7. belly-flop: Rhymezone
  8. belly-flop: FreeDictionary.org
  9. belly-flop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. belly-flop: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See belly-flopped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Belly-flop)

noun:  Alternative spelling of belly flop [(diving) A style of diving into a body of water in which the surface impact is made mostly by one's abdomen.]

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