Definitions for FLOP

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FLOP flop

Spelling: [flop]

IPA: /flɒp/

Flop is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in FLOP (flop).

Definitions for FLOP

noun

1. an act of flopping.
2. the sound of flopping; a thud.
3. a failure:
4. Informal. a place to sleep; temporary lodging:

verb (used with object)

1. to drop with a sudden bump or thud:
2. to dispose (oneself) in a heavily negligent manner:
3. to invert (the negative of a photograph) so that the right and left sides are transposed.

verb (used without object)

1. to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down):
2. to change suddenly, as from one side or party to another (often followed by over).
3. to be a complete failure; fail:
4. Informal. to sleep or be lodged:
5. to swing loosely; bounce; flap:

Origin of FLOP

1595-1605; 1890-95 for def 11; variant of flap

Examples for FLOP

Earlier, a two-headed dragon in the Ron Howard flop Willow was known, at least around the set, as the “Ebersisk.”

“To call that a flip or a flop would be charitable,” Verma said.

At this he spread out his arms and dropped them with a flop upon his knees.

Not surprisingly, the per diem proposal has been a flop since Moran floated it a few weeks ago.

Smith is pale and gangly, sporting a flop of dirty blond hair and a strikingly deep voice.

The superstar comedian’s latest, ‘A Thousand Words,' is set to flop, and his career has gone ice cold.

She looks at it once, and begins to flop her arms and take on again.

Sim could not swim, and he began to flop about in the wildest and most unreasonable manner.

But somehow, Mrs. Bob continued to flop the broken wing, and to elude them.

It was because as a manager of his financial affairs Dorothy was a flop.