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flop
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verb
fall loosely
He flopped into a chair
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verb
fall suddenly and abruptly
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adverb
with a flopping sound
he tumbled flop into the mud
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noun
someone who is unsuccessful
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noun
the act of throwing yourself down
he landed on the bed with a great flop
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noun
a complete failure
the play was a dismal flop
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adverb
exactly
he fell flop on his face
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noun
an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
this computer can perform a million flops per second
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verb
(= founder)
fail utterly; collapse
The project foundered
forging
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noun
shaping metal by heating and hammering