transcription, транскрипция: [ flɒp ]
( flops, flopping, flopped)
1.
If you flop into a chair, for example, you sit down suddenly and heavily because you are so tired.
Bunbury flopped down upon the bed and rested his tired feet...
She flopped, exhausted, on to a sofa.
= collapse
VERB : V prep / adv , V prep / adv
2.
If something flops onto something else, it falls there heavily or untidily.
The briefcase flopped onto the desk...
His hair flopped over his left eye.
VERB : V prep / adv , V prep / adv
3.
If something is a flop , it is completely unsuccessful. ( INFORMAL )
It is the public who decide whether a film is a hit or a flop.
= failure
N-COUNT : oft adj N
4.
If something flops , it is completely unsuccessful. ( INFORMAL )
The film flopped badly at the box office.
VERB : V