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

1. transitive verb. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
2. transitive verb. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
3. intransitive 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.
4. intransitive verb. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
5. noun. Act of flopping.
6. noun. the act of throwing yourself down

   "he landed on the bed with a great flop"

   Synonyms: collapse

7. noun. a complete failure

   "the play was a dismal flop"

   Synonyms: bust, fizzle

8. noun. someone who is unsuccessful

   Synonyms: dud, washout

9. noun. an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers

   "this computer can perform a million flops per second"

10. verb. fall suddenly and abruptly
11. verb. fall loosely

    "He flopped into a chair"

12. verb. fail utterly; collapse

    "The project foundered"

    Synonyms: founder

13. adverb. exactly

    "he fell flop on his face"

    Synonyms: right

14. adverb. with a flopping sound

    "he tumbled flop into the mud"

Synonyms

collapse, bust, fizzle, dud, washout, founder, right

Common word forms

flops, flopped, flopper, flopping

Words from these letters

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