flopn.¹

Brit.

/flɒp/, U.S.

/flɑp/

Etymology: See flop v., and compare flap n.

colloquial and dialect.

a. The action of flop v.; the heavy dull sound produced by ‘flopping’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > flat or limp impact

flop1823

sumph1844

tump-tump1917

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words (at cited word) ‘I'll gi yeow a flop.’

1854 L. Lloyd Scandinavian Adv. II. 271 I was startled by something descending, with a great flop, on to my hat.

1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Oct. 5 The flop of a water-rat or the whirr of the grey-hen.

b. A noise resembling this.

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1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. i. 33 Stuffing his finger into his mouth and pulling it out suddenly, with what he..called a 'flop'.

c. Something loose and pendulous; = flap n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that which hangs or is suspended > loosely

fag feathers1486

flapa1529

lappet1677

flapper1854

flop1900

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > other specific styles of hair

roll1538

puff1601

Tuscan-top1602

cock-up1692

turban1727

bird's nest1730

rooter1840

coxcomb1843

roach1872

flop1900

Buster Brown1904

peppercorn1910

upsweep1946

bouffant1955

beehive1960

Prince Valiant1964

blow-dry1966

Mary Stuart1966

bouffy1970

Mohawk haircut1979

Mohican1983

fauxhawk2000

1900 in Eng. Dial. Dict. II. 419/1.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 3/2 She achieves another immense flop with the back of the brim well pinned in position over the knob of hair which..flops on her neck.

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 134/2 Flop. When the lower classes of women adopted the ‘cretin’ or ‘poodle’ style of wearing the hair low down over the forehead, they gave it this name.

1933 V. Woolf Writer's Diary 9 May (1953) 200 A little servant girl with honest eyes, hair brushed in a flop.

†2. = flap n. 1b. Obsolete.

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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something flat

clap?14..

patc1425

skelpc1440

plata1522

slat1611

slapping1632

slap1648

flop1662

smack1775

smacker1775

skelping1818

spat1823

spatting1840

1662 A. Brome Rump (new ed.) ii. 3 To give us a Flop with a Fox-tail.

3. dialect. A mass of thin mud. Also transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun] > thin or soft

addleOE

slougha1225

mirec1390

slurc1440

slurryc1440

sludge1702

slush1772

slop1796

slosh1808

stabble1821

sposh1836

sleck1840

flop1844

squad1847

slather1876

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > molten metal

flop1844

1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. Gloss. 304.

1852 C. Fox Jrnl. 23 Aug. (1882) 276 The oven where the fiery flop [molten metal] was shut up for six weeks to cool.

a. U.S. College slang. (see quot. 1851).

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1851 B. H. Hall Coll. College Words (at cited word) Any ‘cute’ performance by which a man is sold [deceived] is a good flop.

b. A turn-round; a sudden change of policy or party. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > [noun] > change to other or former condition

re-entry1599

reaction1792

shift1826

reversal1862

swing-back1862

flop1880

revert1895

throwback1923

swing-over1927

U-turn1929

right turn1940

swing-round1940

turnaround1941

turn-round1963

U-ey1976

switch-around1981

1880 N.Y. World 22 Nov. 5/1 Mr. Skinner's apparent flop on the railroad question is injuring his chances in the Speakership struggle.

1904 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 7 Oct. 2 That a flop by the most militant of the unionists is under contemplation has been denied.

1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xviii. 230 So ran the editorial, which was offensively headed ‘West's Fatal Flop’.

1929 Collier's 5 Jan. 41/1 It was basically a ‘flop’.

c. A failure, collapse, or decline. Also, a person or enterprise (esp. a play, etc.) that is a failure. slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful

failure1836

stumer1891

flop1893

dead-ender1915

no-ball1922

dead loss1927

non-performer1962

bust-out1963

1893 J. S. Farmer Slang Flop. 2... A sudden fall or ‘flop’ down. 3... A collapse or breakdown.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 6/2 There has been a flop in Trunks, but Canadas have been good.

1927 Sunday Express 15 May 5/7 Nearly all the American turns prove a flop. Yet they think they can command the earth.

1930 Publishers' Weekly 18 Oct. 1851 These authors every once in a while write a flop.

1931 Discovery Nov. 372/2 Fokker's first invention was a ‘flop’.

1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 June 406/3 She, too, is a common type—the Hollywood flop.

1936 Amer. Speech 11 221 If it [sc. a play] just somehow doesn't click or register, it's doomed to be another flop.

1945 L. A. G. Strong Othello's Occupation 121 He's pretty wobbly, professionally speaking. He's had two flops in the suburbs.

1957 Economist 5 Oct. 24/2 As a gesture of defiance Argentina's one-day general strike last week was a flop.

1969 Times 7 Nov. 3/1 Neil Simon..has had eight Broadway hits..and the question everyone is asking..is whether he's got a flop in him.

d. A ‘flabby’ or ‘soft’ person. slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having

porknellc1540

porkling1541

porridge belly1580

tallow catch1598

woolsack1598

candle-mine1600

trillibub1600

bauson1607

panguts1617

firkin1630

porker1665

poke pudding1706

pudsy1710

jolluxa1797

fatty1797

fattener1817

rotundity1824

tun-butt1829

stout party1855

pig1858

fatlinga1861

slob1861

bladder of lard1864

butterball1877

lard-bladder1891

jelly-belly1896

tub1897

barrel1909

flop1909

pussy-gut1909

gutbucket1919

Billy Bunter1939

endomorph1940

Fatso1944

slug1959

1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) ii. iv. 171 All the little, soft feminine hands, the nervous ugly males, the hands of the flops, and the hands of the snatchers!

1923 Glasgow Herald 12 Dec. 10 If that little flop..believes he can play fast and loose with the moral consciousness of this nation.

1936 ‘F. O'Connor’ Bones of Contention 70 She was a great flop of a woman.

e. U.S. slang. A bed; a place to rest or sleep; = flop-house n. at Compounds 2.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > common lodging house

common lodging house1748

kip1879

doss-house1888

Rowton house1897

fleabag1907

flop1910

flop-house1923

hotbed1939

1910 D. Ranney Autobiogr. iv. 70 You can get a bed in a lodging-house for ten cents, or if you have only seven cents you can get a ‘flop’.

1913 E. A. Brown Broke iii. 28 Say, Jack, can you tell a fellow where he can find a free flop?

1916 Amer. Mag. May 14/1 She said to tell you this ain't no hobos' flop, neither.

1925 Literary Digest 11 July 50/1 You better go around to one of the missions. There's a couple of 'em will give you a flop for nothing.

1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 75 They couldn't find any~place that looked as if it would give them a flop for thirty-five cents.

1955 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 120 So we go up to my flop.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, in various words in which flop is a variant of flap n.

flop-ear n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > lop-ears

bangle ear1567

loll-ears1581

lop-ears1692

flop-ear1879

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 351/1 The old English hog with ‘flop’ ears.

flop-eared adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having ears > having lop-ears

slouch-eared1556

loll-eared1581

lop-eared1688

flop-eared1846

1846 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs ii. 28 You..gnatty, flop-eared varmint!

1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am lii A brace of flop-eared setters bounding before him.

flop-mouth n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > types of

tutel?c1225

oven mouthc1425

plaice-moutha1569

pouch-mouth?1570

flop-mouth1604

flap-mouth1631

out-mouth1668

flounder-mouth1672

sparrow-mouth1673

splay-mouth1693

smoke-holea1704

screw mouth1707

spout mouth1736

beak-mouth1921

satchel-mouth1933

motormouth1976

1604 Meeting of Gallants sig. B4 I loue to heare Tales when a merrie Corpulent Host bandies them out of his Flop-mouth.

C2.

flop-damper n. (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 889/1 Flop-damper, a stove or furnace damper which rests by its weight in open or shut position.

flop-house n. slang (originally U.S.) a doss-house.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > common lodging house

common lodging house1748

kip1879

doss-house1888

Rowton house1897

fleabag1907

flop1910

flop-house1923

hotbed1939

1923 N. Anderson Hobo iii. 30 ‘Flop~houses’ are nearly all alike. Guests sleep on the floor or in bare, wooden bunks. The only privilege they buy is the privilege to lie down somewhere in a warm room.

1927 Scots Observer 26 Mar. 10/3 The lowest of the derelicts spent the night..in a ‘flophouse’ (which is worse than the lowest ‘model’).

1930 Harper's Mag. July 133 The Welfare Council of New York had to charter an old barge..as an overflow flop house.

1941 W. Lewis Let. 3 Sept. (1963) 297 If I don't do something to break out of the net, I shall end my days in a Toronto flophouse.

1964 S. Bellow Herzog (1965) 249 Get out! I leave you nothing!.. Croak in a flophouse.

flop-wing n. (see quots.).

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > member of genus Vanellus > vanellus vanellus (lapwing)

lapwingc1050

wypec1325

tewhita1525

peewita1529

black plover1538

bastard plover1544

green plover1550

lappoint1584

peesweep1772

peeweepa1825

lapwing-gull1844

flapjack1847

teeack1869

flop-wing1885

peewee1886

silver plover1890

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 184 Lapwing (Vanellus vulgaris)..Flopwing.

Draft additions March 2006

Poker. In Hold 'Em and Omaha: the dealing of the first three of the five community cards; these three cards.

ΚΠ

1973 T. A. Preston & B. G. Cox Play Poker to Win vi. 77 Three cards are dealt face up in the center. This is called the flop, and these are community cards to be used by all players in making their hands.

1987 N.Y. Times 23 May 8/2 The flop was 5, 8, King.

1994 Independent (Nexis) 28 June 34 They go all in on aces before seeing the flop and then find themselves outdrawn by a miserable lower pair like 4s or 5s.

2002 A. Bellin Poker Nation ii. 22 During one hand some guy raised on his pocket cards before the flop, and we called.

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FLOPn.²

Brit.

/flɒp/, U.S.

/flɑp/

Forms:

α. 1900s– FLOPS, 1900s– flops.

β. 1900s– FLOP, 1900s– flop.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: megaflop n.; gigaflop n.

Etymology: In α. forms < -flops (in megaflops at megaflop n. Forms). In β. forms < -flop (in megaflop n., gigaflop n.).

Computing.

A floating-point operation per second; floating-point operations per second; a floating-point operation; (as FLOPS, flops) a unit of computing speed equal to one floating-point operation per second. Frequently as the second element in words denoting large multiples of this unit, as gigaflop n., megaflop n., teraflop n., etc.

ΚΠ

1976 Proc. Internat. Symp. Large Engin. Syst. 336 The most common performance measure is the number of floating point operations per second (FLOPS).

1985 New Scientist 1 Aug. 18/2 A single Transputer is currently rated at 100 000 flops.

1993 N.Y. Times 17 Aug. c8/1 The Correlator can perform 750 billion ‘flops’, or simple calculations, per second.

1994 O. A. McBryan in J. Dongarra & J. Waśniewski Parallel Sci. Computing 365 We conclude that a single run will require about 10¹⁶ floating point operations (flop).

1996 New Scientist 24 Feb. 38/1 Intel's P6 chip, now called the Pentium Pro, is capable of around 200 million floating-point operations per second (1 flop is the addition of two large decimal numbers).

1999 Xingfu Wu Performance Eval., Predict. & Visualization Parallel Syst. iv. 116 A decision has to be made regarding the number of flops that are to be credited for different types of floating-point operations, such as..divide, square-root 4 flop, exponential, sine 8 flop.

2003 Network World 18 Aug. 6/2 The fastest Linux supercomputer..with 17.7 trillion FLOPS of peak theoretical performance.

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flopv.

Brit.

/flɒp/, U.S.

/flɑp/

Etymology: onomatopoeic variant of flap v., the change of vowel indicating a duller or heavier sound.

colloquial and dialect.

1. intransitive. To swing or sway about heavily and loosely; = flap v. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > flap loosely

wapc1400

flaffa1522

flap1529

flip-flap1599

flop1602

flasker1689

wamfle1808

wallop1822

flacket1823

flapper1835

swap1884

slat1889

faffle1951

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. H4^v A husband..with a bush of furs on the ridge of his chinne, readie still to flop into his foming chaps.

1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms s.v. ‘The sail flops against the mast.’

1883 K. W. Hamilton in Harper's Mag. 845/1 One side [of a wet umbrella] flopped dejectedly.

a. To move clumsily or heavily; to move with a sudden bump or thud. Of a bird: To flap the wings heavily. Also with away, down, over, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (intransitive)] > flap or flutter

fluttera1000

flickerc1000

bate1398

fanc1400

flackerc1400

abatea1475

flack1567

bat1614

beata1616

flusker1660

flop1692

flap1776

flick1853

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move heavily or clumsily

wallop1718

slummock1828

flop1850

flob1860

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move noisily > with thud or bump

flop1850

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > flop down

flap1660

to flounce down1786

flop1870

bellyflop1914

1692 [see flopping adj. at Derivatives].

1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 4 They flop on heavy wings away.

1850 P. Crook War of Hats 43 Then flopping on his seat..he sinks.

1859 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 13 He flopped over on his side, quite stiff and unconscious.

1870 H. Smart Race for Wife x She flopped down on her knees, and implored for mercy.

1879 J. W. Boddam-Whetham Roraima & Brit. Guiana 105 Tortoises flopped into the water.

1887 W. Besant World went very well Then I. i. 7 Blue water over your head, and the whales flopping around your grave.

1887 A. Brassey Last Voy. (1889) ix. 222 A..grey sea flopping up on our weather bow.

b. figurative. to flop (over): to make a sudden change in one's attitude or behaviour. Also transitive, to cause to change sides; to bring over. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's opinion [verb (intransitive)]

bowa1000

forthinkc1380

to think again1493

recogitate1603

deflect1612

wheel1632

to turn round1808

to flop (over)1884

budge1930

1884 Puck (N.Y.) 6 Aug. 359/1 It is not the Independents who have ‘flopped’ this time. It is the Republican Party that has ‘flopped’ from honesty to dishonesty.

1892 Nation (N.Y.) 6 Oct. 268/3 His [Sardou's] characters..flop over and act in a way quite the reverse of what we had a right to expect.

1894 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation) 18 Jan. 1/4 The purported change was..a fake to enable that canine barnacle, Soule, to flop his politics.

1904 Omaha Bee 3 Sept. 6 A number of New York newspapers have flopped to the support of Parker.

1904 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 16 Dec. 8 Mr. Roche flopped the Boston Pilot to the support of the republican candidate.

1926 C. R. Cooper Oklahoma 123 Hurriedly lawmakers who had been opposed to it ‘flopped’ to the other side.

c. spec. To sleep. slang (originally U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)]

sleepc825

swotherc1000

lib1567

peep1699

caulk1818

to pound one's ear (also pillow)1894

flop1907

to catch some z's1963

1907 J. London Road iv. 74 ‘Kip’, ‘doss’, ‘flop’, ‘pound your ear’, all mean the same thing; namely, to sleep.

1926 J. Black You can't Win vi. 66 It was time to ‘flop’. They took off their shoes and coats.

1936 W. A. Gape Half a Million Tramps x. 301 Where the hell are you going to ‘flop’ tonight?

1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 84 They're filthy..diseased..what's the town mean, why aren't they put in the coop where they belong, why should they be flopping so near our house in a meadow?

d. figurative. To collapse, fail (cf. flop n.¹ 4c). slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)]

withsitc1330

fail1340

defaulta1382

errc1430

to fall (also go) by the wayside1526

misthrive1567

miss1599

to come bad, or no, speedc1600

shrink1608

abortivea1670

maroon1717

to flash in the pan1792

skunk1831

to go to the dickens1833

to miss fire1838

to fall flat1841

fizzle1847

to lose out1858

to fall down1873

to crap out1891

flivver1912

flop1919

skid1920

to lay an egg1929

to blow out1939

to strike out1946

bomb1963

to come (also have) a buster1968

1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress viii The summer~time number [in a theatre] flopped on the second night.

1928 Observer 15 July 15/1 If..the play ‘flops’ after a run of..three or four nights.

1936 P. Fleming News from Tartary 28 She published a book on that journey, which flopped.

1967 M. Reynolds After Some Tomorrow 61 Lenin supposedly tried to apply the teachings of Marx to Russia—and flopped.

3. transitive. To throw suddenly, generally with the additional notion of making a bump or thud. Also with down, in, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > move with thud or bump

flop1823

the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > so as to impinge on something > with a flop or splash

flounce1714

flop1823

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words (at cited word) ‘A floppt his affections’ on such a one.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. xii. 244 She..flopped herself into the standing bed-place.

a1845 T. Hood Agric. Distress iii In bolts our bacon-hog Atwixt the legs of Master Blogg, And flops him down in all the muck.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 247 ‘How you flop it in.’

1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. i. 35 ‘..What do you mean by flopping yourself down and praying agin me?’

4. To move (wings, etc.) heavily and loosely up and down.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)] > flap or beat up and down > heavily

flop1859

1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. vii. 254 Cawing and flopping his wings in the sky.

1891 Cambr. Rev. 12 Mar. 264/2 One or two of them at least sat..feebly flopping their hands about.

5. To strike with a sudden blow. to flop up (the eyes): to bung up; = flap v. 1. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up

fordita800

forstop?c1225

estopa1420

accloy1422

ferma1522

clam1527

quar1542

cloy1548

dam1553

occlude1581

clog1586

impeach1586

bung1589

gravel1602

impediment1610

stifle1631

foul1642

obstipate1656

obturate1657

choke1669

blockade1696

to flop up1838

jama1865

to ball up1884

gunge1976

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > suddenly

flap?a1400

flop1888

zap1942

1838 A. Bywater Sheffield Dial. (ed. 3) 227 If thah gets drunk, an flops a watchman's een up.

1888 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 15 Dec. 5/5 'E carnt flop a bloke.

6. U.S. College slang (see quot. 1851).

ΚΠ

1851 B. H. Hall Coll. College Words (at cited word) ‘A man writes cards during examination to feeze the profs..and he flops the examination if he gets a good mark by the means.’ One usually flops his marks by feigning sickness.

Derivatives

ˈflopping adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > flight > [adjective] > flapping or fluttering

flutteringc1374

flickeringa1544

bating1587

verberating1675

flopping1679

flapping1954

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > flapping loosely

flaffinga1522

flapping1592

swapping1642

flappish1665

flopping1679

flip-flap1841

slatting1883

aflap1887

flappy1905

1679 Tryall R. Langhorn 53 He had a gray Coat on, and plain Shooes, and a flopping Hat.

1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccccix. 384 A Huge Flopping Kyte.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 24 Jealous watch-dog..E'en rous'd by quawking of the flopping crows.

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flopadv.int.

Brit.

/flɒp/, U.S.

/flɑp/

Etymology: The verb stem so used.

colloquial.

With a flop, with a flopping noise. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adverb] > non-resonant impact sound > flat or limp impact

flopa1726

a1726 J. Vanbrugh Journey to London (1728) i. i. 14 Dawn came I flop o' my Feace all along in the Channel.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iii. 100 The beetles fell flop into the water.

1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 177 Reynard dashed out flop against the only hound on that side of the tree.

a1887 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow 177 ‘Dalled if he didn't fall into the pond, flop!’

1930 Daily Express 6 Sept. 4/2 Every one adopts a ‘wait and see’ policy, and business goes ‘flop’.

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n.¹1604

n.²1976

v.1602

adv.int.a1726

单词	flop
释义	flopn.¹ Brit. /flɒp/, U.S. /flɑp/ Etymology: See flop v., and compare flap n. colloquial and dialect. 1. a. The action of flop v.; the heavy dull sound produced by ‘flopping’. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > flat or limp impact flop1823 sumph1844 tump-tump1917 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words (at cited word) ‘I'll gi yeow a flop.’ 1854 L. Lloyd Scandinavian Adv. II. 271 I was startled by something descending, with a great flop, on to my hat. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Oct. 5 The flop of a water-rat or the whirr of the grey-hen. b. A noise resembling this. ΚΠ 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. i. 33 Stuffing his finger into his mouth and pulling it out suddenly, with what he..called a 'flop'. c. Something loose and pendulous; = flap n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that which hangs or is suspended > loosely fag feathers1486 flapa1529 lappet1677 flapper1854 flop1900 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > other specific styles of hair roll1538 puff1601 Tuscan-top1602 cock-up1692 turban1727 bird's nest1730 rooter1840 coxcomb1843 roach1872 flop1900 Buster Brown1904 peppercorn1910 upsweep1946 bouffant1955 beehive1960 Prince Valiant1964 blow-dry1966 Mary Stuart1966 bouffy1970 Mohawk haircut1979 Mohican1983 fauxhawk2000 1900 in Eng. Dial. Dict. II. 419/1. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 3/2 She achieves another immense flop with the back of the brim well pinned in position over the knob of hair which..flops on her neck. 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 134/2 Flop. When the lower classes of women adopted the ‘cretin’ or ‘poodle’ style of wearing the hair low down over the forehead, they gave it this name. 1933 V. Woolf Writer's Diary 9 May (1953) 200 A little servant girl with honest eyes, hair brushed in a flop. †2. = flap n. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something flat clap?14.. patc1425 skelpc1440 plata1522 slat1611 slapping1632 slap1648 flop1662 smack1775 smacker1775 skelping1818 spat1823 spatting1840 1662 A. Brome Rump (new ed.) ii. 3 To give us a Flop with a Fox-tail. 3. dialect. A mass of thin mud. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun] > thin or soft addleOE slougha1225 mirec1390 slurc1440 slurryc1440 sludge1702 slush1772 slop1796 slosh1808 stabble1821 sposh1836 sleck1840 flop1844 squad1847 slather1876 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > molten metal flop1844 1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. Gloss. 304. 1852 C. Fox Jrnl. 23 Aug. (1882) 276 The oven where the fiery flop [molten metal] was shut up for six weeks to cool. 4. a. U.S. College slang. (see quot. 1851). ΚΠ 1851 B. H. Hall Coll. College Words (at cited word) Any ‘cute’ performance by which a man is sold [deceived] is a good flop. b. A turn-round; a sudden change of policy or party. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > [noun] > change to other or former condition re-entry1599 reaction1792 shift1826 reversal1862 swing-back1862 flop1880 revert1895 throwback1923 swing-over1927 U-turn1929 right turn1940 swing-round1940 turnaround1941 turn-round1963 U-ey1976 switch-around1981 1880 N.Y. World 22 Nov. 5/1 Mr. Skinner's apparent flop on the railroad question is injuring his chances in the Speakership struggle. 1904 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 7 Oct. 2 That a flop by the most militant of the unionists is under contemplation has been denied. 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xviii. 230 So ran the editorial, which was offensively headed ‘West's Fatal Flop’. 1929 Collier's 5 Jan. 41/1 It was basically a ‘flop’. c. A failure, collapse, or decline. Also, a person or enterprise (esp. a play, etc.) that is a failure. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful failure1836 stumer1891 flop1893 dead-ender1915 no-ball1922 dead loss1927 non-performer1962 bust-out1963 1893 J. S. Farmer Slang Flop. 2... A sudden fall or ‘flop’ down. 3... A collapse or breakdown. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 6/2 There has been a flop in Trunks, but Canadas have been good. 1927 Sunday Express 15 May 5/7 Nearly all the American turns prove a flop. Yet they think they can command the earth. 1930 Publishers' Weekly 18 Oct. 1851 These authors every once in a while write a flop. 1931 Discovery Nov. 372/2 Fokker's first invention was a ‘flop’. 1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 June 406/3 She, too, is a common type—the Hollywood flop. 1936 Amer. Speech 11 221 If it [sc. a play] just somehow doesn't click or register, it's doomed to be another flop. 1945 L. A. G. Strong Othello's Occupation 121 He's pretty wobbly, professionally speaking. He's had two flops in the suburbs. 1957 Economist 5 Oct. 24/2 As a gesture of defiance Argentina's one-day general strike last week was a flop. 1969 Times 7 Nov. 3/1 Neil Simon..has had eight Broadway hits..and the question everyone is asking..is whether he's got a flop in him. d. A ‘flabby’ or ‘soft’ person. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having porknellc1540 porkling1541 porridge belly1580 tallow catch1598 woolsack1598 candle-mine1600 trillibub1600 bauson1607 panguts1617 firkin1630 porker1665 poke pudding1706 pudsy1710 jolluxa1797 fatty1797 fattener1817 rotundity1824 tun-butt1829 stout party1855 pig1858 fatlinga1861 slob1861 bladder of lard1864 butterball1877 lard-bladder1891 jelly-belly1896 tub1897 barrel1909 flop1909 pussy-gut1909 gutbucket1919 Billy Bunter1939 endomorph1940 Fatso1944 slug1959 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) ii. iv. 171 All the little, soft feminine hands, the nervous ugly males, the hands of the flops, and the hands of the snatchers! 1923 Glasgow Herald 12 Dec. 10 If that little flop..believes he can play fast and loose with the moral consciousness of this nation. 1936 ‘F. O'Connor’ Bones of Contention 70 She was a great flop of a woman. e. U.S. slang. A bed; a place to rest or sleep; = flop-house n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > common lodging house common lodging house1748 kip1879 doss-house1888 Rowton house1897 fleabag1907 flop1910 flop-house1923 hotbed1939 1910 D. Ranney Autobiogr. iv. 70 You can get a bed in a lodging-house for ten cents, or if you have only seven cents you can get a ‘flop’. 1913 E. A. Brown Broke iii. 28 Say, Jack, can you tell a fellow where he can find a free flop? 1916 Amer. Mag. May 14/1 She said to tell you this ain't no hobos' flop, neither. 1925 Literary Digest 11 July 50/1 You better go around to one of the missions. There's a couple of 'em will give you a flop for nothing. 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 75 They couldn't find any~place that looked as if it would give them a flop for thirty-five cents. 1955 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 120 So we go up to my flop. Compounds C1. General attributive, in various words in which flop is a variant of flap n. flop-ear n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > lop-ears bangle ear1567 loll-ears1581 lop-ears1692 flop-ear1879 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 351/1 The old English hog with ‘flop’ ears. flop-eared adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having ears > having lop-ears slouch-eared1556 loll-eared1581 lop-eared1688 flop-eared1846 1846 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs ii. 28 You..gnatty, flop-eared varmint! 1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am lii A brace of flop-eared setters bounding before him. flop-mouth n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > types of tutel?c1225 oven mouthc1425 plaice-moutha1569 pouch-mouth?1570 flop-mouth1604 flap-mouth1631 out-mouth1668 flounder-mouth1672 sparrow-mouth1673 splay-mouth1693 smoke-holea1704 screw mouth1707 spout mouth1736 beak-mouth1921 satchel-mouth1933 motormouth1976 1604 Meeting of Gallants sig. B4 I loue to heare Tales when a merrie Corpulent Host bandies them out of his Flop-mouth. C2. flop-damper n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 889/1 Flop-damper, a stove or furnace damper which rests by its weight in open or shut position. flop-house n. slang (originally U.S.) a doss-house. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > common lodging house common lodging house1748 kip1879 doss-house1888 Rowton house1897 fleabag1907 flop1910 flop-house1923 hotbed1939 1923 N. Anderson Hobo iii. 30 ‘Flop~houses’ are nearly all alike. Guests sleep on the floor or in bare, wooden bunks. The only privilege they buy is the privilege to lie down somewhere in a warm room. 1927 Scots Observer 26 Mar. 10/3 The lowest of the derelicts spent the night..in a ‘flophouse’ (which is worse than the lowest ‘model’). 1930 Harper's Mag. July 133 The Welfare Council of New York had to charter an old barge..as an overflow flop house. 1941 W. Lewis Let. 3 Sept. (1963) 297 If I don't do something to break out of the net, I shall end my days in a Toronto flophouse. 1964 S. Bellow Herzog (1965) 249 Get out! I leave you nothing!.. Croak in a flophouse. flop-wing n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > member of genus Vanellus > vanellus vanellus (lapwing) lapwingc1050 wypec1325 tewhita1525 peewita1529 black plover1538 bastard plover1544 green plover1550 lappoint1584 peesweep1772 peeweepa1825 lapwing-gull1844 flapjack1847 teeack1869 flop-wing1885 peewee1886 silver plover1890 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 184 Lapwing (Vanellus vulgaris)..Flopwing. Draft additions March 2006 Poker. In Hold 'Em and Omaha: the dealing of the first three of the five community cards; these three cards. ΚΠ 1973 T. A. Preston & B. G. Cox Play Poker to Win vi. 77 Three cards are dealt face up in the center. This is called the flop, and these are community cards to be used by all players in making their hands. 1987 N.Y. Times 23 May 8/2 The flop was 5, 8, King. 1994 Independent (Nexis) 28 June 34 They go all in on aces before seeing the flop and then find themselves outdrawn by a miserable lower pair like 4s or 5s. 2002 A. Bellin Poker Nation ii. 22 During one hand some guy raised on his pocket cards before the flop, and we called. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). FLOPn.² Brit. /flɒp/, U.S. /flɑp/ Forms: α. 1900s– FLOPS, 1900s– flops. β. 1900s– FLOP, 1900s– flop. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: megaflop n.; gigaflop n. Etymology: In α. forms < -flops (in megaflops at megaflop n. Forms). In β. forms < -flop (in megaflop n., gigaflop n.). Computing. A floating-point operation per second; floating-point operations per second; a floating-point operation; (as FLOPS, flops) a unit of computing speed equal to one floating-point operation per second. Frequently as the second element in words denoting large multiples of this unit, as gigaflop n., megaflop n., teraflop n., etc. ΚΠ 1976 Proc. Internat. Symp. Large Engin. Syst. 336 The most common performance measure is the number of floating point operations per second (FLOPS). 1985 New Scientist 1 Aug. 18/2 A single Transputer is currently rated at 100 000 flops. 1993 N.Y. Times 17 Aug. c8/1 The Correlator can perform 750 billion ‘flops’, or simple calculations, per second. 1994 O. A. McBryan in J. Dongarra & J. Waśniewski Parallel Sci. Computing 365 We conclude that a single run will require about 10¹⁶ floating point operations (flop). 1996 New Scientist 24 Feb. 38/1 Intel's P6 chip, now called the Pentium Pro, is capable of around 200 million floating-point operations per second (1 flop is the addition of two large decimal numbers). 1999 Xingfu Wu Performance Eval., Predict. & Visualization Parallel Syst. iv. 116 A decision has to be made regarding the number of flops that are to be credited for different types of floating-point operations, such as..divide, square-root 4 flop, exponential, sine 8 flop. 2003 Network World 18 Aug. 6/2 The fastest Linux supercomputer..with 17.7 trillion FLOPS of peak theoretical performance. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flopv. Brit. /flɒp/, U.S. /flɑp/ Etymology: onomatopoeic variant of flap v., the change of vowel indicating a duller or heavier sound. colloquial and dialect. 1. intransitive. To swing or sway about heavily and loosely; = flap v. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > flap loosely wapc1400 flaffa1522 flap1529 flip-flap1599 flop1602 flasker1689 wamfle1808 wallop1822 flacket1823 flapper1835 swap1884 slat1889 faffle1951 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. H4^v A husband..with a bush of furs on the ridge of his chinne, readie still to flop into his foming chaps. 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms s.v. ‘The sail flops against the mast.’ 1883 K. W. Hamilton in Harper's Mag. 845/1 One side [of a wet umbrella] flopped dejectedly. 2. a. To move clumsily or heavily; to move with a sudden bump or thud. Of a bird: To flap the wings heavily. Also with away, down, over, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (intransitive)] > flap or flutter fluttera1000 flickerc1000 bate1398 fanc1400 flackerc1400 abatea1475 flack1567 bat1614 beata1616 flusker1660 flop1692 flap1776 flick1853 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move heavily or clumsily wallop1718 slummock1828 flop1850 flob1860 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move noisily > with thud or bump flop1850 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > flop down flap1660 to flounce down1786 flop1870 bellyflop1914 1692 [see flopping adj. at Derivatives]. 1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 4 They flop on heavy wings away. 1850 P. Crook War of Hats 43 Then flopping on his seat..he sinks. 1859 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 13 He flopped over on his side, quite stiff and unconscious. 1870 H. Smart Race for Wife x She flopped down on her knees, and implored for mercy. 1879 J. W. Boddam-Whetham Roraima & Brit. Guiana 105 Tortoises flopped into the water. 1887 W. Besant World went very well Then I. i. 7 Blue water over your head, and the whales flopping around your grave. 1887 A. Brassey Last Voy. (1889) ix. 222 A..grey sea flopping up on our weather bow. b. figurative. to flop (over): to make a sudden change in one's attitude or behaviour. Also transitive, to cause to change sides; to bring over. U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's opinion [verb (intransitive)] bowa1000 forthinkc1380 to think again1493 recogitate1603 deflect1612 wheel1632 to turn round1808 to flop (over)1884 budge1930 1884 Puck (N.Y.) 6 Aug. 359/1 It is not the Independents who have ‘flopped’ this time. It is the Republican Party that has ‘flopped’ from honesty to dishonesty. 1892 Nation (N.Y.) 6 Oct. 268/3 His [Sardou's] characters..flop over and act in a way quite the reverse of what we had a right to expect. 1894 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation) 18 Jan. 1/4 The purported change was..a fake to enable that canine barnacle, Soule, to flop his politics. 1904 Omaha Bee 3 Sept. 6 A number of New York newspapers have flopped to the support of Parker. 1904 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 16 Dec. 8 Mr. Roche flopped the Boston Pilot to the support of the republican candidate. 1926 C. R. Cooper Oklahoma 123 Hurriedly lawmakers who had been opposed to it ‘flopped’ to the other side. c. spec. To sleep. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] sleepc825 swotherc1000 lib1567 peep1699 caulk1818 to pound one's ear (also pillow)1894 flop1907 to catch some z's1963 1907 J. London Road iv. 74 ‘Kip’, ‘doss’, ‘flop’, ‘pound your ear’, all mean the same thing; namely, to sleep. 1926 J. Black You can't Win vi. 66 It was time to ‘flop’. They took off their shoes and coats. 1936 W. A. Gape Half a Million Tramps x. 301 Where the hell are you going to ‘flop’ tonight? 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 84 They're filthy..diseased..what's the town mean, why aren't they put in the coop where they belong, why should they be flopping so near our house in a meadow? d. figurative. To collapse, fail (cf. flop n.¹ 4c). slang. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] withsitc1330 fail1340 defaulta1382 errc1430 to fall (also go) by the wayside1526 misthrive1567 miss1599 to come bad, or no, speedc1600 shrink1608 abortivea1670 maroon1717 to flash in the pan1792 skunk1831 to go to the dickens1833 to miss fire1838 to fall flat1841 fizzle1847 to lose out1858 to fall down1873 to crap out1891 flivver1912 flop1919 skid1920 to lay an egg1929 to blow out1939 to strike out1946 bomb1963 to come (also have) a buster1968 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress viii The summer~time number [in a theatre] flopped on the second night. 1928 Observer 15 July 15/1 If..the play ‘flops’ after a run of..three or four nights. 1936 P. Fleming News from Tartary 28 She published a book on that journey, which flopped. 1967 M. Reynolds After Some Tomorrow 61 Lenin supposedly tried to apply the teachings of Marx to Russia—and flopped. 3. transitive. To throw suddenly, generally with the additional notion of making a bump or thud. Also with down, in, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > move with thud or bump flop1823 the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > so as to impinge on something > with a flop or splash flounce1714 flop1823 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words (at cited word) ‘A floppt his affections’ on such a one. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. xii. 244 She..flopped herself into the standing bed-place. a1845 T. Hood Agric. Distress iii In bolts our bacon-hog Atwixt the legs of Master Blogg, And flops him down in all the muck. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 247 ‘How you flop it in.’ 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. i. 35 ‘..What do you mean by flopping yourself down and praying agin me?’ 4. To move (wings, etc.) heavily and loosely up and down. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)] > flap or beat up and down > heavily flop1859 1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. vii. 254 Cawing and flopping his wings in the sky. 1891 Cambr. Rev. 12 Mar. 264/2 One or two of them at least sat..feebly flopping their hands about. 5. To strike with a sudden blow. to flop up (the eyes): to bung up; = flap v. 1. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up fordita800 forstop?c1225 estopa1420 accloy1422 ferma1522 clam1527 quar1542 cloy1548 dam1553 occlude1581 clog1586 impeach1586 bung1589 gravel1602 impediment1610 stifle1631 foul1642 obstipate1656 obturate1657 choke1669 blockade1696 to flop up1838 jama1865 to ball up1884 gunge1976 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > suddenly flap?a1400 flop1888 zap1942 1838 A. Bywater Sheffield Dial. (ed. 3) 227 If thah gets drunk, an flops a watchman's een up. 1888 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 15 Dec. 5/5 'E carnt flop a bloke. 6. U.S. College slang (see quot. 1851). ΚΠ 1851 B. H. Hall Coll. College Words (at cited word) ‘A man writes cards during examination to feeze the profs..and he flops the examination if he gets a good mark by the means.’ One usually flops his marks by feigning sickness. Derivatives ˈflopping adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > flight > [adjective] > flapping or fluttering flutteringc1374 flickeringa1544 bating1587 verberating1675 flopping1679 flapping1954 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > flapping loosely flaffinga1522 flapping1592 swapping1642 flappish1665 flopping1679 flip-flap1841 slatting1883 aflap1887 flappy1905 1679 Tryall R. Langhorn 53 He had a gray Coat on, and plain Shooes, and a flopping Hat. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccccix. 384 A Huge Flopping Kyte. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 24 Jealous watch-dog..E'en rous'd by quawking of the flopping crows. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). flopadv.int. Brit. /flɒp/, U.S. /flɑp/ Etymology: The verb stem so used. colloquial. With a flop, with a flopping noise. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adverb] > non-resonant impact sound > flat or limp impact flopa1726 a1726 J. Vanbrugh Journey to London (1728) i. i. 14 Dawn came I flop o' my Feace all along in the Channel. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iii. 100 The beetles fell flop into the water. 1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 177 Reynard dashed out flop against the only hound on that side of the tree. a1887 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow 177 ‘Dalled if he didn't fall into the pond, flop!’ 1930 Daily Express 6 Sept. 4/2 Every one adopts a ‘wait and see’ policy, and business goes ‘flop’. 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