"belly flop" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-PerfectSoundWhatever-belly flop.wav Forms: belly flops [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} belly flop (plural belly flops)
  1. (diving) A style of diving into a body of water in which the surface impact is made mostly by one's abdomen. Categories (topical): Diving Translations (style of diving): panxada [feminine] (Catalan), mahapaukku (Finnish), mahaplätsi (Finnish), plat [masculine] (French), Bauchklatscher [masculine] (German), Bauchplatscher [masculine] (German), Bauchfleck [masculine] (German), salto a ventre de immersion (Interlingua), spanciata [feminine] (Italian), mageplask [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), chapão [masculine] (Portuguese), chapanço [masculine] (Portuguese), planchazo [masculine] (Spanish), magplask [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-belly_flop-en-noun-C1Gng7a8 Topics: diving, hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'style of diving': 100 0 0
  2. A similar move performed on a trampoline.
    Sense id: en-belly_flop-en-noun-LLaya2JP
  3. (slang) A flop; an utter failure. Tags: slang Synonyms: belly flopper, belly whop, belly whopper, bellyflop, belly-flop Related terms: backflop, cannonball, rip entry
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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-PerfectSoundWhatever-belly flop.wav Forms: belly flops [present, singular, third-person], belly flopping [participle, present], belly flopped [participle, past], belly flopped [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} belly flop (third-person singular simple present belly flops, present participle belly flopping, simple past and past participle belly flopped)
  1. To perform this type of dive.
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  2. To perform this type of trampolining move.
    Sense id: en-belly_flop-en-verb-Ska2xDgI
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (Translations): tirarse en plancha (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'Translations': 0 100

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.