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Meaning of flop

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  flop
      adv 1: with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"
      2: exactly; "he fell flop on his face" [syn: {right}, {flop}]
      n 1: an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point
           numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per
           second" [syn: {floating-point operation}, {flop}]
      2: someone who is unsuccessful [syn: {flop}, {dud}, {washout}]
      3: a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop" [syn:
         {flop}, {bust}, {fizzle}]
      4: the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with
         a great flop" [syn: {flop}, {collapse}]
      v 1: fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"
      2: fall suddenly and abruptly
      3: fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered" [syn: {fall
         through}, {fall flat}, {founder}, {flop}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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