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

1. [informal] A complete failure
   "the play was a dismal flop";
   - bust [informal], fizzle, clinker [N. Amer, informal], epic fail [informal], dud, washout, clunker [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. [informal] An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
   "the first experiment was a real flop";
   - turkey [informal], bomb [informal], dud, clunker [N. Amer, informal]
    
3. Act or sound of falling or dropping heavily
   "he landed on the bed with a great flop"; "He took a flop onto the couch"
    
4. [US, informal] Place to sleep, especially temporary or makeshift
   "He needed a flop for the night"
    
5. An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
   "this computer can perform a million flops per second";
   - floating-point operation

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

Derived forms: flopped, flops, flopping

See also: fall

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

Encyclopedia: Flop