Flop
Definitions
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Abbreviation of floating-point operation. abbreviation, alt-of
- Synonym of flop.
- A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
- One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- Dung, as in cow-flop.
- A flophouse.
Equivalents
22 more languages
العربيةالفشل
Češtinapropadnout
Esperantofiaski
Bahasa Indonesiaflop
Italianocrollarefallimentofallirefare fiascofare un buco nell'acquafiascoflopinsuccessomancare il traguardosacco di letamesacco di merda
മലയാളംപാളുക
Nederlandsafgaanafgangdrolfiascoflopfloppeninstorteninzakkenmislukkingneerploffenneervallenneerzijgensissersofvlaai
Українськапровал
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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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