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flop

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1. flop - Noun

2. flop - Verb

3. flop - Adverb

4. flop - Interjection

Meaning

To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.

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.

To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.

Act of flopping.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. Joan Baez

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop. William Saroyan

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. O. Henry

I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there. Peter Gabriel

Boccioni and I were swiftly persuaded that with this show in Paris we were staking our all; for a flop would have meant kissing our fine aspirations goodbye. This is why we decided to go to Paris, to see what the art situation there was like. Carlo Carrà

I couldn't give a damn, [he said]. Writing is where I succeeded. I was a flop in everything else. Khushwant Singh

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