verb

• (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
  "He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work."
• (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
  "The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on."
• (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
  "The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract."
• (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
  "It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year."

noun

• (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
  "The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands."
• (slang) A flophouse.
  "He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or slept in a flop."

noun

• (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
  "The Correlator can perform 750 billion ‘flops’, or simple calculations, per second."
• (by confusion, computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
  "The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8."

noun

• (computing) Synonym of flop.