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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
belly flop
noun
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▪ The rest of the league has been waiting for a belly flop, but the Giants' cagey right-hander refuses to wilt.
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belly flop

alt. (context diving English) A style of dive into a body of water in which the surface impact is made mostly by one's abdomen. n. (context diving English) A style of dive into a body of water in which the surface impact is made mostly by one's abdomen.

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belly flop

n. a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water [syn: belly flopper, belly whop, belly whopper]

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Belly flop

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Usage examples of "belly flop".

She dove into a belly flop, skidding across the ice faster than any of the other would-be rescuers could walk, and grabbed one of Seamus's ankles just as he managed to snag open the door of the imperiled snocle.

Eugene Lockwood's first step on an alien planet was more like a humiliating belly flop.

Ostensibly he'll make for Madrid but the weather's going to take him off course slightly and he's going to run out of fuel and do a belly flop near the airfield at Istres.