Definition of Flop

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Definition of Flop

Flop

To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.

To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.

To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.

Act of flopping.

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Flop Quotations

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.
Johnny Depp

If I flop, let 'em pan me.
Knute Rockne

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Quentin Crisp

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Joan Baez

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
Joan Baez

I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.
Peter Gabriel

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Michael Caine

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
William Greider

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
Daisy Donovan

Flop Translations

flop in Dutch is afgang
flop in French is fruit sec, avatar
flop in German is Reinfall, Versager, versagen
flop in Spanish is fracaso

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