flop

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  flop    -flop  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flop/flɒp/

▶verb (flops, flopping, flopped)

• 1 fall, hang, or collapse in a heavy, loose, and ungainly way.

• 2 informal (of a performer or show) fail totally.

• 3 informal rest or sleep in an improvised place.

▶noun

• 1 a heavy, loose, and ungainly fall.

• 2 informal a total failure.

• 3 informal, chiefly US a cheap place to sleep.

– origin C17: var. of flap.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-flop/flɒp/

▶combining form Computing floating-point operations per second: a gigaflop computer.