flop

To fall heavily due to lack of energy.

He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.

There was [in the clock in Lyons Cathedral] a centre puppet of the Virgin Mary; and close to her, a small pigeon-hole, out of which another and a very ill-looking puppet made one of the most sudden plunges I ever saw accomplished: instantly flopping back again at sight of her, and banging his little door violently, after him.

To cause to drop heavily.

The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.

To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).

The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.

To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)

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.

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.

The brim of a hat flops.

A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.

A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.

Well I know your little baby sister / She thinks that I'm a flop / But I guess that you know that it's true / I spent more time at the bottom than the top

The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.

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).

Dung, as in cow-flop.

"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, ...

... cowpat or cow-flop, Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel.

A flophouse.

He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or slept in a flop.

Indicating the sound of something flopping.

"One step. Steady. Another step. Flop! I got him!"