floppy
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“On paper, people have said, you know, you’re a guy in an indie rock band who does stand-up and has floppy hair, you’re technically a cool guy,” Thomas said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Locke wore an all-black designer outfit, while Connor — dressed in a light blue striped button-down over a white tank and khakis — had traded Nick’s signature floppy hair for designer stubble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Looking like a life jacket thrown into a car compactor, the work weaves a floppy beam of hazard-orange steel around and through a menacing conglomeration of rusty metal scraps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
On the day Preston died, at around 18:25, paramedic Simon Crabb was outside the ambulance bay and saw Varley running with a "floppy" baby in his arms, and told him the child was not breathing.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
He had a turned-up nose and floppy ears.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
I buy about 100,000 floppies per year as I have a business that makes them into drinks mats, fridge magnets and toast racks.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2010
It might stagger the present day mind to actually think of that monstrous storage problem we had when we wanted to store any huge books, such as the Bible, on single sided floppies.
From Price/Cost Indexes from 1875 to 1989 by United States
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
She grew more unwieldy and larger and floppier, a misfortune she attributed to some mysterious malady which she never named, but gloated over with the pride the poor have in their diseases.
From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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 Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings
