flopping in English

verb

1

fall, move, or hang in a heavy, loose, and ungainly way.

black hair flopped across his forehead

synonyms: hang (down), dangle, droop, sag, loll

2

(of a performer or show) be completely unsuccessful; fail totally.

prime-time dramas that flopped in the US market

synonyms: be unsuccessful, fail, not work, fall flat, founder, misfire, backfire, be a disappointment, do badly, lose money, be a disaster, bomb, tank, flame out, come a cropper, bite the dust, blow up in someone's face

verb

collapse, slump, crumple, subside, sink, drop
hang (down), dangle, droop, sag, loll
be unsuccessful, fail, not work, fall flat, founder, misfire, backfire, be a disappointment, do badly, lose money, be a disaster, bomb, tank, flame out, come a cropper, bite the dust, blow up in someone's face
fall flat, founder, fall through

Use "flopping" in a sentence

1. By using live subjects flopping around on beds.

2. The vice-president was accused of flip-flopping on several major issues.

3. He has been criticized for flip-flopping on several key issues.

4. Additionally, the canvas top had blown back and kept flopping in the wind.

5. 13 The vice-president was accused of flip-flopping on several major issues.

6. The birds approach in gay abandon, flopping through the sky in their inimitable way.

7. The are festooned with wires and adjustment knobs flopping on the end of flexible shafts.

8. • The body Convulsed, flopping around the roof in a series of uncoordinated half-somersaults, leaving a trail of blood like footprints

9. Antonyms for Accomplishing include failing, flopping, flunking, foundering, underperforming, blundering, crashing, falling, floundering and folding

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11. Macleod alienated voters by flip-flopping on campaign issues such as civil unions for same-sex couples.

12. They have little to look forward to, save for fat legs, flopping in the silt of some riverine beach.

13. 21 They have little to look forward to, save for fat legs, flopping in the silt of some riverine beach.

14. 13 They have little to look forward to, save for fat legs, flopping in the silt of some riverine beach.

15. The body Convulsed, flopping around the roof in a series of uncoordinated half-somersaults, leaving a trail of blood like footprints

16. The body convulsed, flopping around the roof in a series of uncoordinated half-somersaults, leaving a trail of blood like footprints.

17. To my surprise, I watched as that poor trout—with the hook now set very firmly in his mouth—was launched from the water into the air over my head and landed on the ground flopping behind me.

18. While flip-flopping about the terrorists and coming up with brazen facts about their sponsors, Pakistan is once again proving that it can dupe the United States and hold it to ransom.

19. Douche's evolution from a Laughably Evil villain to a Knight of Cerebus by drinking any other fluid-based food like some sort of vampire to replace the fluid he lost after being broken, flip-flopping between being disarming and Animalistically insane.

20. Many major Republicans, including Gingrich in 2007, supported cap-and-trade before flip-flopping in 2009, suggesting it was something other than Gore's advocacy to Blaim see Tim Pawlenty: "Every one of us" running for …