flop

«flop» in Mova's school dictionary: to fall or sit down heavily and loosely, because you are… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (flop, flops, flopped, flopping); noun (a flop, flops)

meaning for a pupil

1) To flop is to fall or sit down heavily and loosely, because you are tired. tree →

2) To flop is to hang down loosely. tree →

3) A flop is something that fails completely, like a film nobody watches. tree →

4) To flop is to fail. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life tired children flop onto the sofa after school. In stories plans and shows flop. In science a fish flops on the deck out of water. Phrases: flop down, flop onto, a total flop, flip-flops (sandals), belly flop (a dive landing on your tummy).

examples

• I flopped onto my bed after the race. tree →
• The puppy's ears flop over its eyes. tree →
• The new film was a flop. tree →
• Our cake flopped and went flat. tree →
• The fish flopped about on the boat. tree →
• He did a belly flop into the pool. tree →
• She wore flip-flops to the beach. tree →
• Flop! and the frog appeared out of the water close beside him. tree →

note

Double the p: flopped, flopping. Informal word. Adjective: floppy (soft and hanging). A flop means the opposite of a hit or success.

In the corpora

• A happy rabbit may do a binky, leaping and twisting in the air, or flop suddenly onto its side to rest.
• A flat sheet of paper flops, but folded into a zigzag or rolled into a tube it can hold up a book.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «flop» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.