flop

Meanings

Verb

• To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
• To cause to drop heavily.
• To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
• To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
• 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.
• To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
• To stay, sleep or live in a place.
• To flip; to reverse (an image).

Noun

• An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
• A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
• The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
• A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
• A flophouse.
• One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
• Abbreviation of floating-point operation.

Adverb

• Right, squarely, flat-out.
• With a flopping sound.

Origin

• Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound
• A variant capitalization of FLOP, a syllabic acronym of floating-point operations.