FLOPnoun

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  computingengineeringmathematicsSynonym of flop.

flopverb詞源 1/flɒp/

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  To fall heavily due to lack of energy.

  • He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.
  • There was [in the clock in Lyons Cathedral] a centre puppet of the Virgin Mary; and close to her, a small pigeon-hole, out of which another and a very ill-looking puppet made one of the most sudden plunges I ever saw accomplished: instantly flopping back again at sight of her, and banging his little door violently, after him.
• 2

  To cause to drop heavily.

  • The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.
• 3

  informalTo fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).

  • The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
• 4

  hobbieslifestylesportsTo pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)

  • It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.
  • While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.
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  To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.

  • The brim of a hat flops.
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  card-gamespokerTo have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.

  • Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A's hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B's hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ).
• 7

  slangTo stay, sleep or live in a place.

  • […] not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to flop," […]
  • They have opened up crypts and basements as immense pads where vagrant and impoverished hippies can flop for the night.
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  To flip; to reverse (an image).

  • The possibilities of this type of shot are almost limitless. By quartering the screen and duplicating and flopping the picture, a kaleidoscopic effect is achieved.
  • […] in order to flop the image left-to-right, or all printing will appear reversed.

flopnoun詞源 1/flɒp/

• 1

  A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.

• 2

  A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.

  • Well I know your little baby sister / She thinks that I'm a flop / But I guess that you know that it's true / I spent more time at the bottom than the top
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  card-gamespokerThe first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.

  • The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands.
  • Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards).
• 4

  Dung, as in cow-flop.

  • "Maybe as you think," he said, "because as I've the misfortune of an accidental slip on a cow-flop therefore I has the inability of an unborn babe, ...
  • ... cowpat or cow-flop, Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel.
• 5

  slangA flophouse.

  • He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or slept in a flop.

flopintj詞源 1/flɒp/

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  Indicating the sound of something flopping.

  • "One step. Steady. Another step. Flop! I got him!"

flopadv詞源 1/flɒp/

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  Right, squarely, flat-out.

  • She fell flop on the floor.
• 2

  With a flopping sound.

flopnoun詞源 2/flɒp/

• 1

  computingengineeringmathematicsOne floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.

  • The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• floating-point operation