“flops” is a form of
flop
UK /flɒp/ · US /flɑp/ verb, noun, interjection, adverb
Forms flops flopping flopped
- verb (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy. “He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.”
- verb (transitive) To cause to drop heavily. “The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.”
- verb (intransitive, informal) 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.”
- verb (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.”
- 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. “The brim of a hat flops.”
- verb (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).”
- verb (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- verb (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
- 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 Dung, as in cow-flop.
- noun (slang) A flophouse.
- interjection Indicating the sound of something flopping.
- adverb Right, squarely, flat-out. “She fell flop on the floor.”
- adverb With a flopping sound.
- noun (by confusion, computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
- noun (computing) Synonym of flop.
Synonyms
dud fiasco turkey box office bomb floating-point operation washout bust fizzle collapse fall through fall flat founder right
Etymology
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.
A variant capitalization of FLOP, a syllabic acronym of floating-point operations.
A syllabic acronym from floating-point operation.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
- verb To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.] Fielding.
- verb To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
- verb To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.] Dickens.
Etymology [A variant of flap.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “flop”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details