Meaning of Flop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
   abbreviation, alt-of
2. Synonym of flop.
3. A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
4. One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
5. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
6. The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
7. Dung, as in cow-flop.
8. A flophouse.
   slang

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Examples

“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 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).”

“The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the 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.”

“"Cow flop in a neat package is still cow flop. What did Cable stand to gain from the flood?"”

“2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.”

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

“The Correlator can perform 750 billion ‘flops’, or simple calculations, per second.”

“The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8.”

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