Dictionary Entry
flop
flop is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
- 2transitive verb
To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
- 3intransitive verb
To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
- 4intransitive verb
To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
- 5noun
Act of flopping.
- 6noun
the act of throwing yourself down
"he landed on the bed with a great flop"
Synonyms
- 7noun
a complete failure
"the play was a dismal flop"
- 8noun
someone who is unsuccessful
- 9noun
an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
"this computer can perform a million flops per second"
- 10verb
fall suddenly and abruptly
- 11verb
fall loosely
"He flopped into a chair"
- 12verb
fail utterly; collapse
"The project foundered"
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- 13adverb
exactly
"he fell flop on his face"
Synonyms
- 14adverb
with a flopping sound
"he tumbled flop into the mud"
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