From en.wiktionary.org:
[FLOP]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of [en] with a duller, heavier sound
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
2. * [chapter=Lyons, the Rhone, and the Goblin of Avignon]
3. [en] To cause to drop heavily.
4. [en] To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
5. [en] To pretend to be foul ed in sports, such as basketball , hockey (the same as to dive in soccer )
6. [en] 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 .
7. [en] To have (a hand ) using the community card s dealt on the flop.
8. [en] To stay, sleep or live in a place.
9. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1969 | author=Howard E. Freeman; Norman R. Kurtz | title=America's Troubles: A Casebook on Social Conflict | publisher=Prentice-Hall | page=414
|passage=[...] not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to
FLOP," [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1973 | author=Alan Watts | title=Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal | publisher=Pantheon Books | page=135
|passage=They have opened up crypts and basements as immense pads where
vagrant and impoverished hippies can FLOP for the night.}}
1. [en] To flip ; to reverse (an image).
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1968 | journal=Advertising Techniques | volume=4-5 | page=28
|passage=The possibilities of this type of shot are almost limitless. By
quartering the screen and duplicating and FLOPPING the picture, a
kaleidoscopic effect is achieved.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1986 | journal=Functional Photography | volume=21-23 | page=58
|passage=[...] in order to FLOP the image left-to-right, or all printing will
appear reversed.}}
1. [en] To deny someone parole .
2. * [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en|title=terms derived from _flop
(verb)_|bellyflop|flophouse|flopover|flopper|floppy|fly and
flop|mop-and-flop|flop down|flop for|that's the way the mop
flops|floptastic|floppingly }}
***** Translations
[to fall heavily, due to lacking energy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs] se
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to fail completely, not to be successful at all]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Malayalam: [ml] [informal]
- Maori: [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to stay, sleep or live in a place]
- French: [fr]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] (1), [sv] (2)
[trans-bottom]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A heavy, passive fall; a plop ping down.
2. A complete failure , especially in the entertainment industry.
3. * [en]
4. [en] The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a 吴语: Community card poker game.
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1996 | author=John Patrick | title=John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning
|passage=The FLOP didn't help you but probably did help the other hands.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2003 | author=Lou Krieger | title=Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games
|passage=Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the FLOP (the
first three communal cards).}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2005 | author=Henry Stephenson | title=Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level
|passage=The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it
may have been before the FLOP.}}
1. A ponded package of dung , as in a cow-flop.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1960 | author=Winston Graham | title=Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787 | publisher=Bodley Head | page=302
|passage="Maybe as you think," he said, "because as I've the misfortune of an
accidental slip on a COW-FLOP therefore I has the inability of an unborn babe,
....}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2000 | author=Dean King | title=A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales | publisher=Henry Holt & Co. | page=162
|passage=... cowpat or COW-FLOP, Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2003 | author=John W. Billheimer | title=Drybone Hollow | page=215 | publisher=St. Martin's Press
|passage="Cow FLOP in a neat package is still cow flop. What did Cable stand
to gain from the flood?"}}
1. * 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", _Corner Gas Animated_
2. *: Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, FLOP , dumplings.
3. [en] A flophouse .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2013 | author=Gardner Dozois; Jack Dann | title=Dangerous Games
|passage=He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or
slept in a FLOP.}}
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Descendants
- [zh]
***** Translations
[failure, especially in the entertainment industry]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[poned package of dung]
- Dutch: [nl] , (euphemism) vlaai
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
[trans-bottom]
[poker: the first three cards dealt face up]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- French: [fr]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Mandarin:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] (2,3)
[trans-bottom]
**** Interjection
[en-interj]
1. [Indicating the sound of something flopping.]
2. * [1=en]
**** Adverb
[-]
1. Right, squarely , flat-out.
2. With a flopping sound.
***** See also
- [en]
**** Related terms
- [en] < !-- not sure if flipflop , flip flop are also correct -->
*** Etymology 2
[en] [en] A variant capitalization of [en], a syllabic acronym of [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] One floating-point operation per second , a unit of measure of processor speed .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=March 2 1992 | author=Richard Preston | journal= The New Yorker | titleurl=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/03/02/the-mountains-of-pi | title=The Mountains of Pi
|passage=The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is
needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion
FLOPS, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand
times as fast as Cray Y-MP8.}}
1. [en] [en] .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=August 17 1993 | journal=New York Times | section=C8
|passage=The Correlator can perform 750 billion ‘ FLOPS’, or simple
calculations, per second.}}
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|sort=0|title=terms derived from _flop (computing)_ |kiloflop
|megaflop |gigaflop |teraflop |petaflop |exaflop |zettaflop |yottaflop }}
***** Translations
[one floating-point operation per second]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
[trans-bottom]
*** References
- [entry=FLOP]
[en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl]. See also [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. a failure , something that went wrong
2. short for [nl]
**** Synonyms
- [nl] (1)
- [nl] (1)
- [nl] (1)
- [nl] (2)
**** Descendants
- [id]
*** Verb
[nl]
1. [nl]
*** Anagrams
- [nl]
** French
*** Pronunciation
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [fr] [en] [failure]
** Indonesian
*** Etymology
From [id], from [id], perhaps a variant of [en]. The sport sense is [id].
*** Pronunciation
- [id]
- [id]
- [id]
*** Noun
[id-noun]
1. a failure , something that went wrong
2. [en] [to strike about with something broad and flat, to rise and fall, to flap]
3. high jump
*** References
- [R:KBBI Daring]