Flop vs Gig - What's the difference?
flop | gig |
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.
(informal, music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role for a musician or performer.
(informal, by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.
A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 77:
(archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
(South England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
(US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes.
To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
To engage in musical performances.
To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
(US, military) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.
(colloquial, computing) A gigabyte.
As a noun gig is
gig (performing engagement by a musical group, usually used when referring to events with small audience and contemporary music such as rock or punk).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 ----gig
English
Etymology 1
Akin to Old Norse .Noun
(en noun)- I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond .
- Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again?
- Our guitar player had another gig so we had to get a sub.
- I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left .
- Hey, that guy's got a great gig over at the bike shop. He hardly works all day!
- the room grew stifling warm and vapor clung to the windowpanes, blurring the throng of people still milling outside the courthouse, a row of tethered gigs and buggies, distant pine trees in a scrawny, ragged grove.
- I received gigs for having buttons undone.
Verb
- The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time
- His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.
- His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.
Etymology 2
A shortening of (gigabyte).Noun
(en-noun)- This picture is almost a gig ; don't you wanna resize it?
- How much music does it hold?'' ''A hundred and twenty gigs .
