flopped
past simple and past participle offlop
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Assuming that she heard me correctly, my attempt at idiomatic fluency hadflopped.
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With gradient alignment, thefloppedfeature or tone may be attracted toward a word edge without actually reaching it.
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This, after all, was supposed to be a censure debate, although it has ratherfloppedfrom that point of view on the benches opposite.
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When he was forced to depart from the bits of paper that his advisers gave him, hefloppedaround because he did not understand it.
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The cash is being poured out because the buy-your-home campaign hasflopped.
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Indeed, it would be bad for this country if itfloppedand went bust, which could happen.
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Is it not also the case that that ill thought out plan hasfloppedbadly and is monumentally unpopular with employers and its potential clients?
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It was called a helicopter, but it never copt, it onlyflopped.
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Itfloppedbecause the offer was so bad.
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It is not that the contractfloppedon those matters.
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When it came to the substance, hefloppedit.
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He will conduct experiments in so-called open enrolment and opting out, and in budget management by head teachers that hasfloppedwherever it has been rehearsed.
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Stakeholder pensions haveflopped, with very few people taking them up.
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So the minute it came out, itflopped.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This she regards the mistake of her career as after this filmfloppedsuddenly people started offering her motherly roles to heroes.
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