See flop in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.",
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"ref": "1846, Charles Dickens, “Lyons, the Rhone, and the Goblin of Avignon”, in Pictures from Italy, London: […] Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, page 19:",
"text": "There was [in the clock in Lyons Cathedral] a centre puppet of the Virgin Mary; and close to her, a small pigeon-hole, out of which another and a very ill-looking puppet made one of the most sudden plunges I ever saw accomplished: instantly flopping back again at sight of her, and banging his little door violently, after him.",
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"(intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy."
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[
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],
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],
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"ref": "1969, Howard E. Freeman, Norman R. Kurtz, America's Troubles: A Casebook on Social Conflict, Prentice-Hall, page 414:",
"text": "[…] not just the old material goal of \"three hots and a place to flop,\" […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1973, Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal, Pantheon Books, page 135:",
"text": "They have opened up crypts and basements as immense pads where vagrant and impoverished hippies can flop for the night.",
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}
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"word": "crécher"
}
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"ref": "1968, Advertising Techniques, volumes 4-5, page 28:",
"text": "The possibilities of this type of shot are almost limitless. By quartering the screen and duplicating and flopping the picture, a kaleidoscopic effect is achieved.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1986, Functional Photography, volumes 21-23, page 58:",
"text": "[…] in order to flop the image left-to-right, or all printing will appear reversed.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To flip; to reverse (an image)."
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"flip"
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[
"reverse",
"reverse"
]
],
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],
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"transitive"
]
},
{
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{
"ref": "1986 April 12, anonymous author, “One Day I'll Write a Book on This”, in Gay Community News, page 4:",
"text": "I've been incarcerated going on 9½ years. I have never been back on the streets or given a chance to prove myself to society. Every time I would meet the parole board they would flop me telling me I would be a threat to society.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To deny someone parole."
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[
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"slang"
],
[
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"parole"
]
],
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"tags": [
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{
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]
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{
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]
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"masculine"
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{
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{
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"text": "There was [in the clock in Lyons Cathedral] a centre puppet of the Virgin Mary; and close to her, a small pigeon-hole, out of which another and a very ill-looking puppet made one of the most sudden plunges I ever saw accomplished: instantly flopping back again at sight of her, and banging his little door violently, after him.",
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"ref": "1969, Howard E. Freeman, Norman R. Kurtz, America's Troubles: A Casebook on Social Conflict, Prentice-Hall, page 414:",
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"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
"word": "просвам се"
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"code": "cs",
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"word": "instorten"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
"word": "inzakken"
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "neerploffen"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"word": "neerzijgen"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
"word": "neervallen"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
"word": "romahtaa"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
"word": "läsähtää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "lysähtää"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
"word": "lyyhistyä"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
"word": "s’effondrer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
"word": "s’affaler"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
"word": "plumpsen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
"word": "hinplumpsen"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
"word": "crollare"
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"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
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"code": "lt",
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"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
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"code": "lt",
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"word": "се стру́поли"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
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"sense": "to fall heavily, due to lacking energy",
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"code": "es",
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"word": "糊"
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"sense": "to fail completely, not to be successful at all",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to fail completely, not to be successful at all",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to fail completely, not to be successful at all",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "it",
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"word": "mancare il traguardo"
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"code": "ml",
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"sense": "to fail completely, not to be successful at all",
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"informal"
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"word": "പാളുക"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to fail completely, not to be successful at all",
"word": "mūhore"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to fail completely, not to be successful at all",
"word": "klapa"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"word": "ser um fiasco"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to fail completely, not to be successful at all",
"word": "flopar"
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"code": "ro",
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"word": "eșua"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "to fail completely, not to be successful at all",
"word": "fi un fiasco"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to fail completely, not to be successful at all",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"sense": "to fail completely, not to be successful at all",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"word": "потерпе́ть неуда́чу"
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"code": "es",
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"code": "fr",
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"ref": "1979, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “I Want to Boogie With You”, in The Bells:",
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"ref": "1996, John Patrick, John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning:",
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"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2003, Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games:",
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"ref": "2005, Henry Stephenson, Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level:",
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"ref": "1960, Winston Graham, Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787, Bodley Head, page 302:",
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"ref": "2000, Dean King, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales, Henry Holt & Co., page 162:",
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"text": "2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, \"Sasquatch Your Language\", Corner Gas Animated\nWherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings."
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