Noun: flop
Sample Sentences
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Well I know your little baby sister / She thinks that I'm a flop / But I guess that you know that it's true / I spent more time at the bottom than the top [1979, Lou Reed, “I Want to Boogie With You”, in The Bells:]
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The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands. [1996, John Patrick, John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning:]
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Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards). [2003, Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games:]
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The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop. [2005, Henry Stephenson, Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level:]
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"Maybe as you think," he said, "because as I've the misfortune of an accidental slip on a cow-flop therefore I has the inability of an unborn babe, ... [1960, Winston Graham, Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787, Bodley Head, page 302:]
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... cowpat or cow-flop, Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel. [2000, Dean King, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales, Henry Holt & Co., page 162:]
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"Cow flop in a neat package is still cow flop. What did Cable stand to gain from the flood?" [2003, John W. Billheimer, Drybone Hollow, St. Martin's Press, page 215:]
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2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
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Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.
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He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or slept in a flop. [2013, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Dangerous Games:]
Nouns inflected like flop
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.
Verbs referencing "flop"
Danish Nouns
flop, Dutch Nouns
flop, German Nouns
Flop, Finnish Nouns
floppi, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
flopp, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
flopp, Swedish Nouns
flopp.