floppy
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A trans-Atlantic celebrity since the ’60s, Hockney cut a dandyish figure with rakish touches such as floppy bow ties, scarves, caps and pocket squares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
His floppy ears, grumpy little face and paws you just want to shake hands with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
As Betty Boop became more popular, Natwick revised his design to swap the character’s floppy dog’s ears for bangle earrings and shrinking her nose.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
His parents were told he might never walk and might struggle with eating after needing surgery for a floppy larynx.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
Somkit slapped a floppy cap on Pong's head.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
Or 5.25-inch floppies, like some of the DOS versions did.
From The Verge ● Jul. 20, 2022
Microsoft, which had glad-handed Netscape and bundled everything and then some onto its Windows and Office floppies, needed an insurance protection against a Department of Justice that was to the company’s dark competitive arts.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 9, 2013
The other day, I found some floppies left me by a friend a decade dead – letters, poems – and realised that I no longer had a drive or a programme that could read them.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2011
Monochromatic colour floppies with occasional accents of bright red and yellow give different moods on sunny days or ambient lighting by night.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2010
If you have any floppies in your floppy drive, remove them.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John
Still, the scenes themselves play out floppier than you’d expect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Celery works, too — the stalks will be floppier, but can still elevate your sauces and soups.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
After multiple jumps from each pole, the squirrels were challenged with a much thinner, floppier steel beam.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 5, 2021
Ms. Isenberg said the Japanese began making floppier toys in the 1970s and 1980s, and Korean manufacturers stepped in with soft-fabric production in the 1980s.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2020
Rhoda was thinner than ever, and floppier, and took even less pains to be neat.
From The Lee Shore by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
It’s a middle-of-the-spectrum, Goldilocks option — not the firmest or the floppiest, neither the silkiest nor the craggiest, but it will slide comfortably on the boards, which have been playing on the slow side.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
While NBC gives precious little airtime to the phenomenon, limiting us to brief post-race glimpses, I've compiled Rio de Janeiro’s floppiest jowls into a non-stop, minute-long flop-fest: all jowls, all the time.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2016
"They said you were the floppiest flopper they ever saw," I told him.
From Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)
