1. Verb
To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
2. Verb
To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
3. Verb
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. Verb
To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
5. Noun
Act of flopping.
6. Noun
an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second"
Vocabulary classified under Computing and technology
7. Verb
fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"
Vocabulary classified under Business and finance
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