Flop vs Lop - 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.
(usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
To allow to hang down.
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
(US, slang) A disabled person, a cripple.
* 1935 : Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men , p5
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
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As a verb lop is
.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 ----lop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .References
* * * * * * * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) loppe.Verb
(lopp)- to lop the head
Synonyms
* (to cut off)Derived terms
* lopper, loppersSee also
* defalcateNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- (Mortimer)
References
*Etymology 3
from lopsided.Noun
(en noun)- "He's a lop ; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."