Plural of flop
regular plural
The plural of flop is flops.
Forms of flop
| Singular | flop /flɒp/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | flops |
| Countable | countable |
Flops in a sentence
- The brim of a hat flops.
- That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8.1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker
- (Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"1990, Miller's Crossing, 01:08:20. From the entry twist
- "He took the this-is-unheard-of-but-not-really-serious-of-course attitude of a street fakir whose mechanical dingus flops during a demonstration."1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest. From the entry dingus
- I finished dressing—shorts, cutoff t-shirt and flip flops.2012, S. Louis King, Gnome Home Papers, →ISBN, page 318. From the entry Texas tea
Meaning of flop
- verb To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- verb To cause to drop heavily.
- verb To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
Questions about the plural of flop
- What is the plural of flop?
- The plural of flop is flops.
- Is flop countable?
- Flop is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flop (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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