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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
floppy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
floppy disk
floppy (=soft and hanging down loosely, rather than being stiff)
▪ a rabbit with big floppy ears
hard/floppy/A etc drive
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
disc
▪ Colin gave the wrong advice about getting floppy disc out when jammed and then I deleted the stuff off the hard disc.
▪ The results of a search can be stored on a floppy disc or printed out.
▪ Nothing, not a note, not an old article, not a floppy disc.
discs
▪ There were no yuppies or floppy discs.
▪ It couldn't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs.
▪ It is the equivalent to four floppy discs.
▪ He said computer networks would not be affected and copies of information should be made on floppy discs.
▪ We found that on two occasions it was unable to copy a large file across 5 floppy discs.
▪ Standard letters can be stored on floppy discs. 2.
disk
▪ But you can attach a keyboard or computer monitor to it, along with an optional floppy disk.
▪ Microcomputers on the other hand generally use local storage on floppy disks.
▪ One of the easiest is to modify your computer so that it will not boot from a floppy disk.
▪ In the absence of networking, students need to submit work on floppy disks.
▪ The whole program comes on a single floppy disk.
▪ It can be used on a hard disk computer or a floppy disk type with two disk drives.
▪ Originally Word fit quite neatly on a single 400K floppy disk.
drive
▪ The functions of memory, floppy drive and the hard disk are all explained.
▪ Apparently the machine's screen and the motherboard survived intact - but alas not the floppy drive.
▪ There is an option to mount an additional 5.25inch floppy drive in a spare bay to the right.
▪ A Packard Bell desktop 386 computer complete with hard disk, two floppy drives and software, £666.
▪ The hard and floppy drives are 3.5-inch affairs mounted on the side of the main drive cage.
▪ The floppy drive supplied with the 320SLi is an external unit, which weighs about 10oz.
▪ It ran as smooth as clockwork; hard disk, floppy drive, monitor and printer port.
▪ Use disk head cleaning kits on floppy drives. 3.
hat
▪ Now she was standing outside my school in a black floppy hat and long green coat, waiting for another boy.
▪ As for my powder blue, double-knit polyester bridesmaid dress and floppy hat, I left them behind this time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Floppy

Floppy \Flop"py\, n. Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.
--G. Eliot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
floppy

1858, "inclined to flop" [OED], from flop + -y (2). Floppy disc attested from 1972 (short form floppy by 1974).

Wiktionary
floppy

a. limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible. n. (context computing English) A floppy disk

WordNet
floppy
  1. n. a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer; "floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price" [syn: diskette, floppy disk]

  2. [also: floppiest, floppier]

floppy
  1. adj. hanging limply; "a spaniel with floppy ears"

  2. [also: floppiest, floppier]

Wikipedia
Floppy (disambiguation)

Floppy may refer to:

  • Floppy, a dog in the children's novel series The Magic Key by Roderick Hunt
  • floppy disk or floppy-disk drive
  • floppy disk controller
  • The Floppy Show, an American children's television series
  • Mr Floppy, an Australian rock band
  • Mr. Floppy, a talking, toy rabbit from the television sitcom Unhappily Ever After
  • A comic book

Usage examples of "floppy".

So after saving the file he re-saved it on a floppy disc to take to his superior, Major Bayon Karim Kitan, who would in turn, take it to his boss, OIS Director Abahar Kharrazi.

Major Dougherty, Eben saw a number of white men dressed in the inevitable homespun trousers, shirts, waistcoats, and wide-brimmed floppy hats.

Muttie walking that floppy hound called Hooves round for the rest of his life?

A gray-haired lady in a housedress and floppy sweater stood on the porch of her home as Judd raced by.

She came out a side exit wrapped in plastic rainwear including a hat and floppy booties, and seemed ready for some hard-earned relaxation.

Viking outfit drank beer with a saturnine, well-used wayfarer in floppy seaboots and a ruffled black shirt.

Forte, himself an old shellback, was rigged out as a seventeenth-century pirate, in floppy boots, ragged pants, black handlebar mustaches, a cutlass and brace of wheellock pistols tucked in a broad red sash, rakish black hat with a peacock feather and the brim turned up, and black eye patch.

She shakes her head crossly, like a dog with a scrap, and the dress comes free, skims off her arms into his hands floppy and faintly warm.

Obsessively, in the way a person worries a rip deep in a pocket, she now reached up under the floppy hat to feel her denuded scalp for the thirtieth or fortieth time.

All you have to do is insert a floppy and off it goes, rooting into passwords, infiltrating programs.

On either side of the far door grey circuitry simmered, key banks and function consoles, a jukeboxful of floppy disks, the many screens showing printouts and readings in squat robot type.

At last he reached up and rearranged the floppy hat, straightening the long peacock feather.

He glanced over at Lady Emma with her butterscotch curls, baby-doll cheeks, floppy pink roses, and bouncing cherries.

Brill said stiffly in the entry hall, his eyes taking in Annas dusty clothes and floppy hat.

A large tawny dog with floppy ears came up to my hand and I backed away.