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1. Fall loosely
   "He flopped into a chair"
    
2. Fall suddenly and abruptly
    
3. Fail utterly; collapse
   "The project flopped";
   - fall through, fall flat, founder, go to the wall [informal], come to nothing

1. [informal] Someone who is unsuccessful
   - dud, washout, clunker [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. [informal] A complete failure
   "the play was a dismal flop";
   - bust [informal], fizzle, clinker [N. Amer, informal], epic fail [informal]
    
3. The act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
   "he landed on the bed with a great flop";
   - collapse
    
4. [informal] An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
   "the first experiment was a real flop";
   - turkey [informal], bomb, dud, clunker [N. Amer, informal]
    
5. An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
   "this computer can perform a million flops per second";
   - floating-point operation

1. With a flopping sound
   "he tumbled flop into the mud"
    
2. Completely
   "he fell flop on his face";
   - right

Derived forms: flopping, flops, flopped

See also: fall

Type of: break, cave in, collapse, come down, computer operation, descend, descent, fail, failure, fall, fall in, founder, give, give way, go down, go wrong, loser, machine operation, miscarry, no-hoper [informal], nonstarter, sink, unsuccessful person

Encyclopedia: Flop