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| 1. v. (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy. |  |
| He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work. | |
| 2. v. To cause to drop heavily. | |
| The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on. | |
| 3. v. (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. v. (sports) 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. v. (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. v. (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. v. (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place. | |
| 8. n. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down. | |
| 9. n. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry. | |
| 10. n. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game. | |
| 11. n. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop. | |
| 12. adv. Right, squarely, flat-out. | |
| 13. adv. With a flopping sound. | |
| 14. n. (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed. | |
| 15. n. (computing) (abbreviation of floating-point operation). | |
