Flop

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Articles related to a dictionary sense of flop, a failure, include:

• Box office flop or commercial flop, in the entertainment world

Flop may also refer to:

Terms

• Flop house or flophouse, a cheap transients' rooming house
• Flop (poker), a poker term describing the first three cards dealt to the board
• Flip-flop (electronics), 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), an intentional fall to claim a foul
• Diving (association football), intentional fall sometimes called flop in US
• Diving (ice hockey)
• Fosbury Flop, in high jump
• Flop shot in golf, with high trajectory but short travel

Entertainment

• Flop (band), a defunct 1990s era pop-punk group from Seattle, Washington, US
• Flop!, an industrial and synthpop album by the band And One
• Flop (film), from Argentina
• Flop Show, Indian TV
• The Flop House, film podcast

Acronyms

• FLOPS, floating point operations per second in computing

Other uses

• Flop-transition, in the string theory of physics
• Wheel flop, a consequence of some bicycle and motorcycle geometries

See also

• Flip (disambiguation)