flop

Adverb

• exactly
  • he fell flop on his face
    

• with a flopping sound
  • he tumbled flop into the mud
    

Noun

• the act of throwing yourself down
  • he landed on the bed with a great flop
    

• a complete failure
  • the play was a dismal flop
    

• someone who is unsuccessful

• an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
  • this computer can perform a million flops per second
    

Verb

• fail utterly; collapse
  • The project foundered
    

• fall suddenly and abruptly

• fall loosely
  • He flopped into a chair
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  right , collapse , bust , fizzle , dud , washout , floating-point operation , fall through , fall flat , founder