Flop
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Terms

  • Flop, a box office bomb
    Box office bomb
    The phrase box office bomb refers to a film for which the production and marketing costs greatly exceeded the revenue regained by the movie studio. This should not be confused with Hollywood accounting when official figures show large losses, yet the movie is a financial success.A film's financial...

     in the entertainment world
  • Flop, as verb or noun, referring to flophouse
    Flophouse
    A flophouse , doss-house or dosshouse is a place that offers very cheap lodging, generally by providing only minimal services.-Characteristics:...

    , cheap rooms in a transients' hotel
  • Flop (poker), a poker term describing the first three cards dealt to the board
  • Flip-flop (electronics)
    Flip-flop (electronics)
    In electronics, a flip-flop or latch is a circuit that has two stable states and can be used to store state information. The circuit can be made to change state by signals applied to one or more control inputs and will have one or two outputs. It is the basic storage element in sequential logic...

    , the bistable multivibrator, a circuit with two stable states
  • Flopped image, a type of mirror image in photography, graphic design and printing
  • Flop (algebraic geometry) a birational transformation

Sports

  • Flop (basketball)
    Flop (basketball)
    In basketball, flop is a pejorative term that refers to a defensive player intentionally falling backward to the floor upon physical contact with an offensive player. The hope is that it will appear to the official that the defensive player was knocked off of his feet by the offensive player's...

    , a basketball term to describe a feigned foul. Made famous by Vlade Divac
    Vlade Divac
    Vlade Divac is a retired Yugoslav and Serbian professional basketball player who spent most of his career in the NBA. At , he played center and was known for his passing skills...

     NBA player who was known for the flop while playing for the Sacramento Kings
    Sacramento Kings
    The Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California, United States. They are currently members of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association...

    .
  • Fosbury Flop
    Fosbury Flop
    The Fosbury Flop is a style used in the athletics event of high jump. It was popularized and perfected by American athlete Dick Fosbury, whose gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics brought it to the world's attention...

    , a high jump technique
  • Flop shot
    Golf stroke mechanics
    Golf stroke mechanics is the means by which golfers make decisions and execute them in the sport of golf...

    , a shot in golf where the ball has a very high trajectory but travels a short distance

Entertainment

  • Flop (band)
    Flop (band)
    Flop was an early-1990s pop punk band from Seattle, Washington. The band gained some exposure as a result of a brief appearance in Doug Pray's motion picture documentary Hype!.-The Beginning :...

    , a defunct 1990s era pop-punk group from Seattle, Washington
  • Flop (album), an industrial and synthpop album by the band And One

Acronyms

  • FLOPS
    FLOPS
    In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...

    , an abbreviation for the computing term floating point operations per second
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