What is "flop"

Flop \Flop\ (fl[o^]p), v. i.

1. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.

2. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.]
   --Dickens.

Flop \Flop\, n. Act of flopping. [Colloq.]
--W. H. Russell.

Flop \Flop\ (fl[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flopped (fl[o^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Flopping.] [A variant of flap.]

1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.]
   --Fielding.

c.1600, "to flap," probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound. Sense of "fall or drop heavily" is 1836; that of "collapse, fail" is 1919; though the figurative noun sense of "a failure" is recorded from 1893. Related: Flopped; flopping.

1823, "act of flopping; any action that produces the sound 'flop;' the sound itself," from flop (v.). Figurative sense of "a failure; that which is a failure" is by 1893, from the notion of a sudden break-down or collapse. Extended form flopperoo attested from 1936. The Fosbury flop high-jumping technique (1968) is so called in reference to U.S. athlete Dick Fosbury (b.1947), who used it to win the 1968 Olympic gold medal.

Etymology 1 adv. 1 Right, squarely, flat-out. 2 With a flopping sound. n. 1 An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down. 2 A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry. 3 (context poker English) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a http://en.wikipedi

1. org/wiki/Community%20card%20poker game. 4 A place to stay, sleep or live. See flophouse 5 A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop. v

2. 1 To fall heavily due to lack of energy. 2 To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song et

3. ). 3 (context sports English) To pretend to be foul in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer) 4 To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap. Etymology 2

   n. (context computing English) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per secon

1. adv. with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"

2. exactly; "he fell flop on his face" [syn: right]

3. v. fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"

4. fall suddenly and abruptly

5. fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered" [syn: fall through, fall flat, founder]

6. [also: flopping, flopped]

1. n. an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second" [syn: floating-point operation]

2. someone who is unsuccessful [syn: dud, washout]

3. a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop" [syn: bust]

4. the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop" [syn: collapse]

5. [also: flopping, flopped]

Flop was an early- 1990s pop punk band from Seattle, Washington. The band formed in 1990, released recordings on the Frontier and Sony 550 record labels, and made a brief appearance in Doug Pray's motion picture documentary Hype!.

In basketball, a flop is an intentional fall by a player after little or no physical contact by an opposing player in order to draw a personal foul call by an official against the opponent. The move is sometimes called acting, as in "acting as if he was fouled". Because it is inherently designed to deceive the official, flopping is generally considered to be unsportsmanlike. Nonetheless, it is widely practiced and even perfected by many professional players.

Flopping effectively is not easy to do, primarily because drawing contact can sometimes result in the opposite effect—a foul called on the defensive player—when too much contact is drawn or if the player has not positioned himself perfectly. Additionally, even if no foul is called on either player, by falling to the floor, the flopping defensive player will have taken himself out of position to provide any further defensive opposition on the play, thus potentially allowing the offense to score easily. To consistently draw offensive fouls on opponents takes good body control and a great deal of practice. Players generally become better at flopping as their careers progress.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) added a rule in 1997 to cut down on flopping near the basket, adding a 4-foot (1.22 meter) "dotted line area" around the center of the basket to help prevent flops. Such flops are charged as blocking fouls or no-calls. In the 2012–13 season, the league began fining guilty players.

In the NBA, the penalty for "flopping" is a technical foul if caught in-game, and a fine if caught after the game in video reviews. The technical foul is a non-unsportsmanlike conduct technical foul (one of six fouls a player may be assessed before disqualification; no ejection is possible). In FIBA play, the penalty is a technical foul that counts as one of two towards ejection.

2012–13 National Federation of State High School Associations basketball rule 10.6.f specifically defines "faking being fouled," in the judgment of an official, as unsportsmanlike conduct subject to penalty of a technical foul, but in practice this call is exceptionally rare.

Flop may refer to:

1. redirect List of Argentine films of 1990

Category:1990 films