FLOP

• (noun) the act of throwing yourself down

  "he landed on the bed with a great flop"

  synonyms : collapse

• (noun) a complete failure

  "the play was a dismal flop"

  synonyms : bust , fizzle

• (noun) someone who is unsuccessful

  synonyms : dud , washout

• (noun) an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers

  "this computer can perform a million flops per second"

  synonyms : floating-point operation

• (verb) fall suddenly and abruptly

• (verb) fall loosely

  "He flopped into a chair"

• (verb) fail utterly; collapse

  "The project foundered"

  synonyms : fall flat , fall through , founder

• (adverb) exactly

  "he fell flop on his face"

  synonyms : right

• (adverb) with a flopping sound

  "he tumbled flop into the mud"

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