Usually means: Failure to meet expected success.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word flop:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. flop: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -flop, flop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. FLOP, flop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flop, the flop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flop, flop: Wordnik
  7. flop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. FLOP, flop: Wiktionary
  9. flop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flop: Dictionary.com
  13. flop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FLOP, Flop (band), Flop (basketball), Flop (disambiguation), Flop (poker), Flop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flop: Rhymezone
  19. Flop (m), flop, flop (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. FLOP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. FLOP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. flop: Free Dictionary
  24. flop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. flop: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. FLOP: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FLOP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. FLOP, Flop (disambiguation): Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FLOP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. flop: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. flop, flop, flop, flop, flop, flop, flop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. flop: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. the flop: Urban Dictionary
  5. Flop: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flop: Dan's Poker
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Flop: Gambling Glossary
  4. Flop: Poker Terms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  2. flop: Coin Collecting

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
verb:  (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
verb:  (intransitive) 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.
verb:  (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
verb:  (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
verb:  (transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole.
noun:  A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
noun:  A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
noun:  (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
noun:  A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
noun:  (slang) A flophouse.
adverb:  Right, squarely, flat-out.
adverb:  With a flopping sound.
noun:  (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
noun:  (computing) Synonym of flop.
noun:  (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.

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