flop

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to fall or drop heavily and loosely; also a complete failure

   He let himself flop onto the sofa after the long, exhausting day.

Simplified etymology

Flop appeared in the early 17th century as a further variant of Middle English flap. Both words probably imitate the sound of something flapping.

An alteration of flap (imitative of a sudden loose movement), attested from the 17th century; the sense 'a failure' is 19th-century colloquial.

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