flop
verb
[ flɒp ]
• fall, move, or hang in a loose and ungainly way.
• "his blond hair flopped over his eyes"
• (of a performer or show) be completely unsuccessful; fail totally.
• "the show flopped in London"
Similar:
be unsuccessful,
fail,
not work,
fall flat,
founder,
misfire,
backfire,
be a disappointment,
do badly,
lose money,
be a disaster,
meet with disaster,
come to grief,
miss the mark,
run aground,
bomb,
bellyflop,
fold,
flatline,
go to the wall,
come a cropper,
go down like a lead balloon,
bite the dust,
blow up in someone's face,
tank,
Opposite:
be successful,
flop
noun
• a heavy, loose, and ungainly movement, or a sound made by it.
• "they hit the ground with a flop"
• a total failure.
• "the play had been a flop"
Similar:
failure,
disaster,
debacle,
catastrophe,
loser,
damp squib,
flopperoo,
washout,
also-ran,
bellyflop,
dud,
dog,
lemon,
lead balloon,
no-hoper,
no-go,
non-starter,
fail,
clinker,
• a cheap place to sleep.
Origin:
early 17th century: variant of flap.
-flop
combining form
• floating-point operations per second (used as a measure of computing power).
• "a gigaflop computer"
Origin:
acronym; originally spelled -flops ( s = second) but shortened to avoid misinterpretation as plural.
