meaning of flop
1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc. ; to flap.
2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
3. To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
4. To fall, sink, or throw ones self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
5. Act of flopping.
6. FLOP 1. An early system on the IBM 701. [Listed in CACM 25:16 May 1959].
7. the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great
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