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• Buying preformatted floppy disks means that you don't have to waste time formatting them.From the entry preformatted
• Floppy diskette drives have largely been replaced by more efficient media such as the USB memory stick.From the entry floppy diskette drive
• Will frequent reformattings harm a floppy disk?From the entry reformatting
• Buying preformatted floppy disks saved me a lot of time.From the entry preformat
• Floppy disks were preempted by CDs.From the entry preempt
• The trendy, 80s-inspired hairstyle typically features short sides with a floppy, tousled mop of hair on top.2018 February 22, Olivia Petter, “'Meet me at McDonald's' haircut banned in Norfolk school”, in The Independent. From the entry meet me at McDonald's
• If he'd put a floppy hat and some lovebeads on Lori it could have been Alice's Restaurant.2016, Robert G. Barrett, And De Fun Don't Done: A Les Norton Novel, →ISBN. From the entry lovebeads
• I stroke the whorl of fur between his ears, one sticky-uppy and one floppy.2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN. From the entry sticky-uppy
• Prior to the Internet becoming commonplace, the common medium was the floppy disc.2014, Kenneth A. Spencer, All About Your Computer: An Explanation of the Computer for the Interested User, →ISBN, page 210. From the entry virusses
• My bijou computerette had no truck with floppy disks, so an Internet café would not suffice.2012, Miranda Innes, Getting to Manana, page 175. From the entry computerette
• Big Pat's still wearing his hair like two floppy ears on a dog.2011, Colin Neill, “Behind Every Man …”, in Turas: A Story of Strangers in a Strange Land, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicester: Matador…. From the entry catch on
• Miggins brings in a floppy disk from home with some code on it written by her son.2003, Nigel Stanley, “Scalability and Security”, in Microsoft .NET Jumpstart for Systems Administrators and Developers, Burlington, Mass.…. From the entry Mrs Miggins
• A hard disc is both much larger, and very much faster, than any floppy.1991, M. H. Beilby, R. D. Harding, M. R. Manning, Scientific Programmer's Toolkit: Turbo Pascal Edition, page 1. From the entry hard disc
• "Diskazines" or "magazettes," which are nothing more than magazines on floppy disks.1990, E. W. Brody, Communication tomorrow: new audiences, new technologies, new media. From the entry diskazine
• Some high-end synthesizers even have floppy disks for additional patch storage.1988 November 28, “MIDI: Computers and Music”, in U-M Computing News, volume 3, number 21, The University of Michigan Computing Center…. From the entry patch
• I sat on the floppy purple thing inflating blobbily behind me.1984, Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Wesleyan University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry blobbily
• Standard digital recording techniques are used with floppy disks rather than audio recording techniques.1978, Louis E. Frenzel, Getting Acquainted with Microcomputers, page 239. From the entry minidisk
• A flippy-floppy allows data recording on both sides; regular floppies can use only one.1975, Computer Decisions, volume 7, page 30. From the entry flippy-floppy
• She has long, raven-colored hair with a floppy widow's peak, and tosses it agitatedly as she speaks.1974 April 27, Gary Jane Hoisington, “Susan Sontag”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry agitatedly
• The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic.2023 June 9, Luke Winkie, “Our Greatest Fast-Food Joint Is Costco”, in Slate, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2023. From the entry waxy
• Admittedly, the flapjack at Ostborough Academy is legendary – gooey and floppy and at least fifty per cent golden syrup.2019, Lisa Williamson, “[Autumn] 10”, in Paper Avalanche, Oxford, Oxon: David Fickling Books, →ISBN. From the entry flapjacky
• The majestic sea flap flap is both beautiful and floppy.2016 February 24, Sammie (@Sammie14333), Twitter. From the entry majestic sea flap flap
• Pollyanna Pocket was small, with long floppy ears and a tail that coiled upwards in a little ringlet.2014, Dot and the Waves, page 10. From the entry pollyanna
• Pen drives have replaced the old floppy disks as the modern way to physically transport files from one computer to another.2009, James Floyd Kelly, “Netbook Hardware Options” (chapter 2), in Windows Netbooks: The Path to Low-Cost Computing, Berkeley…. From the entry pen drive
• These lucky organizations often resorted to sneakernets—transferring data on magnetic tape or floppy disks—to avoid the re-keying process.2003, Doug Kaye, “Application Integration”, in Alison Bing, Cessna Kaye, editors, Loosely Coupled: The Missing Pieces of Web Services…. From the entry sneakernet
• You know, the big old flappy, floppy, feeted pajamas.2002, Maribeth Kuzmeski, Red Zone Marketing: A Playbook for Winning All the Business You Want!, Facts on Demand, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry feeted
• Jimmy Page lacked the floppy hat and beard, but the guitar still maintained his trade mark industrial resonance.1998 November 6, Magnus Mills, “When dinosaurs rocked the earth”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry trade mark
• Like floppy drives on steroids, flopticals use laser optics to store up to 21MB of data on one 3½-inch disk.1995, Eric Knorr, The PC Bible, page 74. From the entry floptical
• Ashton-Tate’s most recent contribution to humongosity is MultiMate 4.0, which comes on 23 (not a misprint) 5.25-inch floppies.1990 August, Henry F. Beechhold, “Latest Model of an Old-Time Word Processor”, in Home Office Computing, volume 8, number 8, New York…. From the entry humongosity
• Some are more popular than others - woolly rasta hats are high on the list, as are little floppy khaki ones.1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61. From the entry rasta hat
• This beret was a large floppy field cap, coloured black.1972, David Nash, The Prussian Army, 1808-1815, page 85. From the entry barret
• Sometimes people mistook Daisy for a spaniel, but you could tell she was a luck dragon because she had big floppy ears.2009 March 1, Sam Bowring, The Zoo of Magical and Mythological Creatures, Macmillan, preface. From the entry luck dragon
• Before the days of Internets and intranets, there were sneakernets—users would save files on a floppy disk and simply walk them over to another PC!2004, Adrian W. Kingsley-Hughes, “What’s What—the Anatomy of a PC”, in The PC Doctor’s Fix-it-yourself Guide, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill…. From the entry sneakernet
• RAM ICs, floppy controllers and other roll-your-own computer parts, right on up to complete motherboards and whole machines, are in great supply.1991, 73. From the entry roll-your-own
• A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled.1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142). From the entry floppy disk
• This output control line is used to select which side of a two-sided floppy disk is to be used for reading or writing.1984, Steve Ciarcia, Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar, volume 4, page 162. From the entry two-sided
• One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble "slotting" floppies.1978 Spring, Collins Reynolds, editor, The Bridge, volume 3, number 1, Center for Research and Education, page 31. From the entry slot
• CA's other offering, the Basic Desk, is configurable from a minimum single-terminal, dual-floppy disk system to a four-terminal version supporting multiple floppy and 10M-byte disks.1978 May 29, “Computer Automation, Inc.”, in Computer World, retrieved 02 Nov 2010. From the entry configurable

Meaning of floppy

1. adjective Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.
2. noun A floppy disk.
3. noun An insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War, called as such for the way they "flop" when shot.

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How do you use floppy in a sentence?

Floppy is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Buying preformatted floppy disks means that you don't have to waste time formatting them.”

What is a short sentence with floppy?

“Floppy disks were preempted by CDs.”

What does floppy mean?

Floppy means limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.