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flopsweat

flopsweat is the alternative form of flop sweat.

Meaning of flop sweat

Noun

flop sweat (usually uncountable, plural flop sweats)

  1. (slang, usually) Sweat due to nervousness, especially fear of failure.
    • Billy Vine, covered with flop sweat, started so-so, but in a few minutes he had them.15 March 1947, Bill Smith, "Night Club Reviews", Billboard page 36
  2. (slang, usually) Panic or anxiety about possible failure.
    • This is the point very often where panic sets in. In theatre jargon, we call it "flop sweat."1979, Ken Waissman, Maxine Fox, “Broadway: A sound heard around the world”, in Beyond Media, →ISBN, page 264

Forms of flopsweat

pluralflopsweats

Questions about flopsweat

What is flopsweat the alternative form of?
Flopsweat is the alternative form of flop sweat.

Words near flopsweat in the dictionary

  1. flopropione
  2. flops
  3. flops down
  4. flops for
  5. Flopsies
  6. flopsweat
  7. flopsweats
  8. flopsy
  9. Flopsyes
  10. Flopsys
  11. floptastic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flopsweat (page history and authors); flop sweat (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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