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What is the noun for flop?

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flop
  1. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
  2. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
  3. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
  4. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The villain was completely unconvincing, and, as a result, the film was a flop at the box office.”
      “After spending years training to be a professional dancer, he was sadly considered a flop when he failed to secure any performance contracts.”
floppy
  1. (computing) A floppy disk
  2. (derogatory) A black insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “If there is a floppy in the disk drive, remove it.”
flopper
  1. One who flops.
  2. (skittles) The knocking down of all nine pins in one go.
  3. Examples:
    1. “So while not a flopper himself, he understands the value that exaggerating contact can provide to a team.”
      “Anyone worth their defensive salt wants nothing to do with being identified as a flopper.”
      “Although the fines are not particularly onerous, the shame of being publicly labelled a flopper might be an effective deterrent.”
flop
  1. (computing) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The villain was completely unconvincing, and, as a result, the film was a flop at the box office.”
      “After spending years training to be a professional dancer, he was sadly considered a flop when he failed to secure any performance contracts.”
flopdom
  1. (slang) The realm of flops or failures.
floppiness
  1. The characteristic or quality of being floppy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “His oversized sweater was uncomfortable due to its floppiness.”
      “Then I got a branch that was just the right degree of floppiness – and it was hilarious.”
      “Your arms should be held firm against the relative wind, without excess tension or floppiness.”
flopperoo
  1. (slang) A flop; an utter failure.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The most significant portent for them may not be their stupendous flopperoo in the California special election.”
      “There was a decent audience for once, as so far this show has been a gigantic flopperoo.”
      “To stall the Ducks, sputtering opponents have resorted to that reliable tactic, the old flopperoo.”
flopping
  1. The motion of something that flops.
flopperoos
floppings
  1. plural of flopping
floppers
  1. plural of flopper
floppies
  1. plural of floppy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “To the surprise of everyone, two high quality colour photographs had been scanned and delivered in floppies for publication.”
      “Files can also be protected on USB Flash Drives, Memory Sticks, CD-RW, floppies and notebooks.”
      “Their engineers thought of a better way to store more data on their floppies.”
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