▸ verb: (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy. ▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to drop heavily. ▸ verb: (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.). ▸ verb: (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer) ▸ verb: (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. ▸ verb: (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop. ▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place. ▸ verb: (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image). ▸ verb: (transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole. ▸ noun: A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down. ▸ noun: A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry. ▸ noun: (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game. ▸ noun: A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop. ▸ noun: (slang) A flophouse. ▸ adverb: Right, squarely, flat-out. ▸ adverb: With a flopping sound. ▸ noun: (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed. ▸ noun: (computing) Synonym of flop. ▸ noun: (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
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