Flop vs. Hit

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  • Flop (verb)

    To fall heavily due to lack of energy.

    “He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.”

  • Flop (verb)

    To cause to drop heavily.

    “The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.”

  • Flop (verb)

    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.”

  • Flop (verb)

    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.”

    “While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat “the biggest flopping team in the NBA,” he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.”

  • Flop (verb)

    To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.

    “The brim of a hat flops.”

  • Flop (verb)

    To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.

    “Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A’s hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B’s hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ).”

  • Flop (verb)

    To stay, sleep or live in a place.

  • Flop (noun)

    An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.

  • Flop (noun)

    A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.

  • Flop (noun)

    The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.

  • Flop (noun)

    A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.

  • Flop (noun)

    One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.

  • Flop (noun)

    abbreviation of floating-point operation.

  • Flop (adverb)

    Right, squarely, flat-out.

  • Flop (adverb)

    With a flopping sound.

  • Hit (verb)

    To strike.

  • Hit (verb)

    To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

    “One boy hit the other.”

  • Hit (verb)

    To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

    “The ball hit the fence.”

  • Hit (verb)

    To strike against something.

  • Hit (verb)

    To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.

    “Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.”

  • Hit (verb)

    To briefly visit.

    “We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.”

  • Hit (verb)

    To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

    “You’ll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.”

    “We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.”

  • Hit (verb)

    To attain, to achieve.

  • Hit (verb)

    To attack, especially amphibiously.

    “If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don’t think we’d ever have hit that island.”

  • Hit (verb)

    To reach or achieve.

    “I hit the jackpot.”

    “The movie hits theaters in December.”

    “The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.”

    “We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.”

  • Hit (verb)

    To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.

  • Hit (verb)

    To affect negatively.

    “The economy was hit by a recession.”

    “The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.”

  • Hit (verb)

    To attack.

  • Hit (verb)

    To make a play.

  • Hit (verb)

    To guess; to light upon or discover.

  • Hit (verb)

    In blackjack, to deal a card to.

    “Hit me.”

  • Hit (verb)

    To come up to bat.

    “Jones hit for the pitcher.”

  • Hit (verb)

    To use; to connect to.

    “The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.”

  • Hit (verb)

    To have sex with.

    “I’d hit that.”

  • Hit (verb)

    To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

  • Hit (noun)

    A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

    “The hit was very slight.”

  • Hit (noun)

    Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.

  • Hit (noun)

    An attack on a location, person or people.

  • Hit (noun)

    A match found by searching a computer system or search engine

  • Hit (noun)

    A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

    “My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.”

  • Hit (noun)

    An approximately correct answer in a test set.

  • Hit (noun)

    The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

    “The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.”

  • Hit (noun)

    A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

    “Where am I going to get my next hit?”

  • Hit (noun)

    A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.

  • Hit (noun)

    A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

    “a happy hit”

  • Hit (noun)

    A move that throws one of the opponent’s men back to the entering point.

  • Hit (noun)

    A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

  • Hit (adjective)

    Very successful.

    “The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.”

  • Hit (pronoun)

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