flop

verb · noun · interjection · adverbA1

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verb
V_es/s
flops
V_ing/Gerund
flopping
V_ed/pp
flopped
  1. 1.

    (intransitive)To fall heavily due to lack of energy.

    He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To cause to drop heavily.

    The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.

  3. 3.

    (informal, intransitive)To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).

    The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.

  4. 4.

    (intransitive)(sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)

    It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.

    While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.

  5. 5.

    (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.

    The brim of a hat flops.

  6. 6.

    (transitive)(poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.

    Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A's hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B's hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ).

  7. 7.

    (intransitive, slang)To stay, sleep or live in a place.

  8. 8.

    (transitive)To flip; to reverse (an image).

  9. 9.

    (slang, transitive)(transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
flops
  1. 1.

    A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.

  2. 2.

    A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.

    Đồng nghĩa: dud, fiasco, turkey, box office bomb

  3. 3.

    (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.

  4. 4.

    Dung, as in cow-flop.

    2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.

  5. 5.

    (slang)A flophouse.

  6. 6.

    (abbreviation, alt of)(computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.

  7. 7.

    (by confusion, computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.

interjection

interjection
  1. 1.

    Indicating the sound of something flopping.

Trạng từ

adverb
  1. 1.

    (not comparable)Right, squarely, flat-out.

    She fell flop on the floor.

  2. 2.

    (not comparable)With a flopping sound.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

dudfiascoturkeybox office bomb

Cùng gốc / liên quan

flip-flopaflop

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Nguồn gốc từ

Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.

Nguồn dữ liệu: freedict, wiktionary · cập nhật 14/8/2026

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