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[flop-ee] / ˈflɒp i /


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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

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

The group of partyers with floppy hair that Johnson moved in with called themselves the Sway House and developed a reputation as the bad boys of early TikTok.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

After eating a meal at a restaurant, Molly "started getting really lethargic, then just went floppy", Katy recalled.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

He makes our words with a big floppy tongue.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

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

Many pointed out floppies are needed to access even newer computers' deepest innards - their bios.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2010

Booting from floppies is supported for most platforms.

From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen

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 Dame Rose Macaulay

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




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