• (RP) IPA: /flɒp/
• (America) IPA: /flɑp/
• (Australia) IPA: /flɔp/

Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound

flop (flops, present participle flopping; simple past and past participle flopped)

1. (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.

   He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.

   • 1846, Charles Dickens, “Lyons, the Rhone, and the Goblin of Avignon”, in Pictures from Italy, London: […] Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC ↗, page 19 ↗:

     There was [in the clock in Lyons Cathedral] a centre puppet of the Virgin Mary; and close to her, a small pigeon-hole, out of which another and a very ill-looking puppet made one of the most sudden plunges I ever saw accomplished: instantly flopping back again at sight of her, and banging his little door violently, after him.

2. (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.

   The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.

3. (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.

4. (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.

   While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.

5. (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.

6. (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).

7. (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
8. (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
9. (transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole.

• French: s'effondrer, s'affaler
• German: plumpsen, hinplumpsen
• Italian: crollare
• Portuguese: colapsar
• Russian: плю́хаться
• Spanish: desplomarse, colapsar, dejarse caer

• French: faire un four, faire un bide, faire un flop, être un fiasco
• German: versagen, scheitern, floppen, misslingen
• Italian: fare fiasco, fare un buco nell'acqua, fallire, mancare il traguardo
• Portuguese: ser um fiasco, flopar
• Russian: провали́ться
• Spanish: fracasar

• French: crécher

flop (plural flops)

1. A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
2. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.

   Synonyms: dud, fiasco, turkey, box office bomb

3. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
   • 1996, John Patrick, John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning:

     The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands.

   • 2003, Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games:

     Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards).

   • 2005, Henry Stephenson, Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level:

     The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop.

4. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
   • 2003, John W. Billheimer, Drybone Hollow, St. Martin's Press, page 215:

     "Cow flop in a neat package is still cow flop. What did Cable stand to gain from the flood?"

   • 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated

     Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.

5. (slang) A flophouse.
   • 2013, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Dangerous Games:

     He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or slept in a flop.

• French: four, bide, fiasco, flop, navet
• German: Flop, Misserfolg, Reinfall, Pleite, Fehlschlag, Luftnummer, Versagen, Brezen, Versager, Rohrkrepierer
• Italian: fiasco, fallimento, insuccesso
• Portuguese: fiasco
• Russian: про́вал

• German: Kuhfladen
• Italian: sacco di letame, sacco di merda

1. Indicating the sound of something flopping.

flop (not comparable)

1. Right, squarely, flat-out.

   She fell flop on the floor.

2. With a flopping sound.

• flip-flop

A variant capitalization of FLOP, a syllabic acronym of floating-point operations.

flop (plural flops)

1. (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
2. (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.

A syllabic acronym from floating-point operation.

flop (plural flops)

1. (computing) Synonym of flop.