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belly flopping

belly flopping is the present participle and gerund of belly flop.

Meaning of belly flop

Verb

belly flop (third-person singular simple present belly flops, present participle belly flopping, simple past and past participle belly flopped)

  1. (intransitive) To perform this type of dive.
  2. (intransitive) To perform this type of trampolining move.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To flop; to be an utter failure.
    • The director's first three movies belly flopped.

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Questions about belly flopping

What is belly flopping the present participle and gerund of?
Belly flopping is the present participle and gerund of belly flop.

Words near belly flopping in the dictionary

  1. belly dumpers
  2. belly flop
  3. belly flopped
  4. belly flopper
  5. belly floppers
  6. belly flopping
  7. belly flops
  8. belly itcher
  9. belly itchers
  10. belly landing
  11. belly landings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: belly flopping (page history and authors); belly flop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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