flop (noun)
121List of English words with disputed usage — Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious between writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially common in spoken English. While in some circles the usages below may make the speaker… …
122bomb — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. [bomb]shell; slang, flop (See failure). See arms. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. weapon, missile, high explosive, charge, bombshell, grenade; see also explosive , mine 2 , nuclear bomb , shell 2 . Types of… …
123change — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Alteration Nouns 1. change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, innovation, metastasis; transition; menopause; deviation, flux, turn; shift; diversion, break; reform,… …
124dud — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. failure;(pl.) informal, clothing. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. failure, flop, washout*; see disappointment 2 , failure 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. failure, bomb, lemon, bust, loser, *dog, washout …
125fall — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. plunge, drop, sink, tumble, topple; perish; be deposed, come to grief; happen, occur, take place; sin, misbehave, lapse. n. slope, declivity; downfall, defeat, comedown; drop, slump; plunge, tumble …
126stiff — I. vb 1a. to kill. An Americanism based on the noun form of the word (denoting a corpse). Since the 1960s the term has been heard in raffish or underworld par lance in Britain. 1b. British to attack physically, trounce 2. to take financial… …
127List of commonly misused English words — This is a list of English words which are commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers, editors, and other professional linguists of Standard English. It is possible that some of the… …
128Wobbly lingo — is a collection of technical language, jargon, and historic slang used by the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies, for more than a century.Origin and usageWords and phrases in Wobbly lingo may have different meanings in… …
