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floppy

[flop-ee] / ˈflɒp i /


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

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

“This stretch is a common dumping ground,” she told me, eyes hidden behind sunglasses under a floppy sun hat.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

With his gym clothes, cross necklace, floppy hair, and singular fixation on linking all of his efforts and successes to his faith, the 19-year-old Pittman looked like the archetype of the Southern Christian sports bro.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2026

The strangely fascinating use of ancient technology—dot-matrix printers, floppy disks, a mid-’80s computer that was then known as the Macintosh—is a pleasure, though far from the only one in “OBEX.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

He was wearing a floppy beret and an ascot like movie directors sometimes do—in cartoons.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein




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