flop
Example Sentences
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Netflix, Warner, and Paramount amortized around $40 billion worth of content in the past 12 months, much of it on flops.
From Barron's
The creek was shallow and warm, but they flopped in, and it trickled over their hot bodies.
From Literature
Men dig in flip‑flops through dense black earth, "cow dung", as a young girl sitting on full sacks calls it.
From Barron's
Afterward, some Canadian hockey analysts accused her of flopping.
Online comments were quick to compare the game to Concord - Sony's multiplayer shooter flop that was taken off sale just two weeks after release.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
