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# flop

«flop» in Mova's school dictionary: **to fall or sit down heavily and loosely, because you are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (flop, flops, flopped, flopping); noun (a flop, flops)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To flop is to fall or sit down heavily and loosely, because you are tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/#m1)

2) To flop is to hang down loosely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/#m2)

3) A flop is something that fails completely, like a film nobody watches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/#m3)

4) To flop is to fail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life tired children flop onto the sofa after school. In stories plans and shows flop. In science a fish flops on the deck out of water. Phrases: flop down, flop onto, a total flop, flip-flops (sandals), belly flop (a dive landing on your tummy).

### examples

- I flopped onto my bed after the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/#x1)
- The puppy's ears flop over its eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/#x2)
- The new film was a flop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/#x3)
- Our cake flopped and went flat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/#x4)
- The fish flopped about on the boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/#x5)
- He did a belly flop into the pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/#x6)
- She wore flip-flops to the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/#x7)
- Flop! and the frog appeared out of the water close beside him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/#x8)

### note

Double the p: flopped, flopping. Informal word. Adjective: floppy (soft and hanging). A flop means the opposite of a hit or success.

### In the corpora

- [A happy rabbit may do a binky, leaping and twisting in the air, or flop suddenly onto its side to rest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing/11/)
- [A flat sheet of paper flops, but folded into a zigzag or rolled into a tube it can hold up a book.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.