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1. Fall loosely
   "He flopped into a chair"
    
2. Fall suddenly and abruptly
    
3. Fail utterly; collapse
   "The project flopped";
   - fall through, fall flat, founder

1. An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
   "this computer can perform a million flops per second";
   - floating-point operation
    
2. Someone who is unsuccessful
   - dud, washout, clunker [N. Amer]
    
3. A complete failure
   "the play was a dismal flop";
   - bust, fizzle
    
4. The act of throwing yourself down
   "he landed on the bed with a great flop";
   - collapse
    
5. An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
   "the first experiment was a real flop";
   - turkey, bomb, dud, clunker [N. Amer]

1. With a flopping sound
   "he tumbled flop into the mud"
    
2. Exactly
   "he fell flop on his face";
   - right

Derived forms: flopping, flops, flopped

See also: fall

Type of: break, cave in, collapse, come down, computer operation, descend, descent, fail, failure, fall, fall in, founder, give, give way, go down, go wrong, loser, machine operation, miscarry, no-hoper, nonstarter, unsuccessful person

Encyclopedia: Flop