See flopping in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "flopping",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "flop"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of flop"
],
"id": "en-flopping-en-verb-miu2Ccyi",
"links": [
[
"flop",
"flop#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"word": "flopping"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "floppings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "flopping (plural floppings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "87 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "92 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "93 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Rabi flopping"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
110,
119
]
],
"ref": "1916, Ezra Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir:",
"text": "[…] it belongs to the realm of magnetic currents or to the binding properties of steel girders and not to the floppings of grass or the contours of the parochial churchyard.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The motion of something that flops."
],
"id": "en-flopping-en-noun-PmBk9EPD"
}
],
"word": "flopping"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "flopping",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "flop"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of flop"
],
"links": [
[
"flop",
"flop#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"word": "flopping"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Rabi flopping"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "floppings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "flopping (plural floppings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
110,
119
]
],
"ref": "1916, Ezra Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir:",
"text": "[…] it belongs to the realm of magnetic currents or to the binding properties of steel girders and not to the floppings of grass or the contours of the parochial churchyard.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The motion of something that flops."
]
}
],
"word": "flopping"
}
Download raw JSONL data for flopping meaning in English (1.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). 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.