Usually means: Painful, flat dive into water.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word belly flop:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. belly flop: Merriam-Webster
  2. belly flop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. belly flop: Collins English Dictionary
  4. belly-flop, belly flop: Vocabulary.com
  5. belly-flop: Wordnik
  6. belly flop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. belly-flop, belly flop: Wiktionary
  8. belly-flop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. belly-flop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. belly flop: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. belly-flop, belly flop: Dictionary.com
  12. belly-flop, belly flop: Rhymezone
  13. belly-flop, belly flop: FreeDictionary.org
  14. belly-flop, belly flop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. belly-flop, belly flop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. belly flop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belly flop: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Belly flop: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (belly flop)

noun:  (diving) A style of diving into a body of water in which the surface impact is made mostly by one's abdomen.
noun:  A similar move performed on a trampoline.
noun:  (slang) A flop; an utter failure.
verb:  To perform this type of dive.
verb:  To perform this type of trampolining move.

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