flop

[flop]

To flop is to drop or hang heavily and loosely. If you're exhausted at the end of the day, you might flop into a chair as soon as you walk into your house.

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To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

Noun
the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop"

Noun
a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop"

Noun
someone who is unsuccessful

Noun
an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second"

Verb
fall suddenly and abruptly

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Verb
fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"

Verb
fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"

Adverb
exactly; "he fell flop on his face"

Adverb
with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"


v. t.
To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

v. t.
To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.

v. i.
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.

v. i.
To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.

n.
Act of flopping.


Flop

Flop , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flopped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flopping.] [A variant of flap.] 1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap. 2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.] Fielding.

Flop

Flop , v. i. 1. 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. 2. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Flop

Flop, n. Act of flopping. [Colloq.] W. H. Russell.

To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

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.

Act of flopping.

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Usage Examples

I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.

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