flopverb
uk/flɒp/us/flɑːp/-pp-flop verb (FALL)
[ I usually + adv/prep ] to fall or drop heavily:
Hugh's hair keeps flopping over/into his eyes.
When she gets home from school, she's so tired all she can do is flop down in front of the television.
flop verb (FAIL)
[ I ] If a book, play, film, etc. flops, it is not successful:
Her first book flopped, but her second became a bestseller.
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Failing and doing badly
- at-risk
- backbencher
- balls-up
- be running on empty idiom
- beat a dead horse idiom
- crack
- crash
- draw
- fail
- fall apart
- fray around/at the edges idiom
- fumble
- get off on the right/wrong foot idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- go against sb
- sink like a stone idiom 1
- sink like a stone
- so much for sth idiom
- stagnate
- strike out
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flopnoun
uk/flɒp/us/flɑːp/flop noun (FAILURE)
[ C usually singular ] informal a failure:
The play was a complete/total flop.
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Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- cock-up
- dead duck
- free fall
- hash
- lemon
- lost cause
- lulu
- mess
- mess-up
- might-have-been
- parody
- slush pile
- track record
- train wreck
- turkey
- underachiever
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flop noun (FALL)
[ S ] an occasion when someone or something falls or drops heavily:
He fell with a flop on the bed.