Flop vs Bang - What's the difference?
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To fall heavily, because lacking energy.
To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
(sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
(poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a game.
* 1996: John Patrick, John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning
* 2003: Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games
* 2005: Henry Stephenson, Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level
A place to stay, sleep or live. See flophouse
* 1973 , Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal , Pantheon Books, page 135,
* 1969 , Howard E. Freeman, Norman R. Kurtz, America's Troubles: A Casebook on Social Conflict , Prentice-Hall, Page 414,
* 2006 , Ray Douglas, America Is Headed for a Fall , AuthorHouse, Page 53,
A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
* 2000 , Dean King, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales , Henry Holt & Co., Page 162,
* 1960 , Winston Graham, Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787 , Bodley Head, Page 302,
* 2003 , John W. Billheimer, Drybone Hollow , St. Martin's Press, Page 215,
Right, squarely, flat-out.
With a flopping sound.
(computing) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.
A sudden percussive noise.
A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
An explosion.
(US, especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.
* W. D. Howells
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(US) The symbol , known as an exclamation point.
(mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
(figuratively) An act of sexual intercourse.
An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
(slang, mining) An explosive product.
(slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
(label) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
(label) To hit hard.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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To engage in sexual intercourse.
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* 1972 , (Mario Puzo) and (Francis Ford Coppola), (The Godfather) (film):
(with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
(label) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
* The Century Magazine
, directly.
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Precisely.
With a sudden impact.
a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound
Flop is a related term of bang.
flop
English
Etymology 1
Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of (flap) with a duller, heavier soundVerb
(flopp)- He flopped down in front of the television as he was exhausted from work.
- (Charles Dickens)
- The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
- It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.
- While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.
- The brim of a hat flops .
Derived terms
* flophouse * flopover * flopper * floppyNoun
(en noun)- The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands.
- Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards).
- The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop .
- They have opened up crypts and basements as immense pads where vagrant and impoverished hippies can flop for the night..
- ... is not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to flop ," it ....
- Hugh and the boys playing in beautiful settings with beautiful young babes was a far cry from grungy hippies doing it in a filthy flop house, ...
- ... cowpat or cow-flop , Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel.
- "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, ...
- "Cow flop in a neat package is still cow flop. What did Cable stand to gain from the flood?"
Synonyms
* (complete failure) dud, fiasco, turkey * (specifically in entertainment) box office bombAdverb
(-)See also
* aflopEtymology 2
Syllabic abbreviation of (floating point) + (operation).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* megaflop * gigaflop * teraflop ----bang
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang .
- Tiffany has long hair and bangs .
- his hair cut in front like a young lady's bang
- An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
- Load the bang into the hole.
Synonyms
* strike, blow * explosion * (hair cut) fringe, bangs * exclamation point, exclamation markAntonyms
* (abrupt left turn) hangVerb
(en verb)- The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
- Moe Greene: He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!
- His hair banged even with his eyebrows.
Synonyms
* nailAdverb
(en adverb)- The passenger door was bang against the garage wall.
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- ''He arrived bang on time.
- Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.
Interjection
(en interjection)- He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, "Bang !"
