flop

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• Received-Pronunciation: /flɒp/
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• General-American: /flɑp/
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• Australian: /flɔp/
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• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ɒp
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• CMU ARPABET: F L AA1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.

A variant capitalization of FLOP, a syllabic acronym of floating-point operations.

A syllabic acronym from floating-point operation.

120 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: провал (proval) — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Danish: fiasko — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Danish: flop — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Dutch: afgang — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Dutch: fiasco — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Dutch: flop — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Dutch: mislukking — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Dutch: sof — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Dutch: sisser — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Finnish: floppi — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Finnish: lässähdys — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Finnish: fiasko — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Finnish: epäonnistuminen — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• French: bide — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• French: fiasco — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• French: flop — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• French: four — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• German: Flop — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• German: Misserfolg — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• German: Reinfall — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• German: Pleite — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• German: Fehlschlag — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• German: Luftnummer — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• German: Versagen — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• German: Brezen — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• German: Versager — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• German: Rohrkrepierer — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Greek: πτώση (ptósi) — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Italian: fiasco — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Italian: fallimento — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Italian: insuccesso — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Japanese: 失敗作 (shippaisaku) — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Japanese: 大コケ (ookoke) — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Macedonian: не́успех (néuspeh) — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Macedonian: у́тка (útka) — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Macedonian: фија́ско (fijásko) — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Māori: mūhore — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Norwegian Bokmål: flopp — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Norwegian Nynorsk: flopp — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Polish: niewypał — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Polish: klapa — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Portuguese: fiasco — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Portuguese: flop — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Russian: про́вал (próval) — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Russian: неуда́ча (neudáča) — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Russian: фиа́ско (fiásko) — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Swedish: fiasko — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Swedish: flopp — failure, especially in the entertainment industry
• Dutch: drol — poned package of dung
• Dutch: vlaai — poned package of dung
• Finnish: läjä — poned package of dung
• German: Kuhfladen — poned package of dung
• Italian: sacco di letame — poned package of dung
• Italian: sacco di merda — poned package of dung
• Finnish: floppi — poker: the first three cards dealt face up
• Russian: флопс (flops) — one floating-point operation per second
• Russian: флоп (flop) — one floating-point operation per second
• Bulgarian: просвам се (prosvam se) — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Czech: zhroutit se — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Danish: plumpe ned — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Danish: lade sig dumpe ned — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Dutch: instorten — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Dutch: inzakken — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Dutch: neerploffen — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Dutch: neerzijgen — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Dutch: neervallen — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Esperanto: falaĉi — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Finnish: romahtaa — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Finnish: läsähtää — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Finnish: lysähtää — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Finnish: lyyhistyä — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• French: s'effondrer — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• French: s'affaler — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• German: plumpsen — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• German: hinplumpsen — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Italian: crollare — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Lithuanian: dribti — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Lithuanian: nudribti — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Lithuanian: drėbtis — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Macedonian: се стру́поли (se strúpoli) — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Portuguese: colapsar — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Romanian: prăbuși — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Russian: плю́хаться (pljúxatʹsja) — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Russian: плю́хнуться (pljúxnutʹsja) — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Spanish: desplomarse — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Spanish: colapsar — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Spanish: dejarse caer — to fall heavily, due to lacking energy
• Chinese Mandarin: 糊 (hú) — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Chinese Mandarin: 翻車 /翻车 (fānchē) — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Chinese Mandarin: 遇冷 (yùlěng) — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Czech: propadnout — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Danish: falde — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Danish: have fiasko — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Dutch: afgaan — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Dutch: floppen — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Esperanto: fiaski — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Finnish: flopata — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• French: faire un four — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• French: faire un bide — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• French: faire un flop — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• French: être un fiasco — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• German: versagen — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• German: scheitern — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• German: floppen — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• German: misslingen — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Italian: fare fiasco — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Italian: fare un buco nell'acqua — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Italian: fallire — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Italian: mancare il traguardo — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Malayalam: പാളുക (pāḷuka) — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Māori: mūhore — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Portuguese: ser um fiasco — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Portuguese: flopar — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Romanian: eșua — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Romanian: fi un fiasco — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Russian: провали́ться (provalítʹsja) — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Russian: потерпе́ть неуда́чу (poterpétʹ neudáču) — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Spanish: fracasar — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• Swedish: floppa — to fail completely, not to be successful at all
• French: crécher — to stay, sleep or live in a place