flop vs twirl

flop

verb
  • To flip; to reverse (an image). 

  • To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer) 

  • To stay, sleep or live in a place. 

  • To fall heavily due to lack of energy. 

  • 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. 

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

  • To cause to drop heavily. 

  • To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.). 

adv
  • With a flopping sound. 

  • Right, squarely, flat-out. 

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

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

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

  • A flophouse. 

  • A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry. 

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

intj
  • Indicating the sound of something flopping. 

twirl

verb
  • To twist round. 

  • To pitch. 

  • To rotate rapidly. 

  • To perform a twirl. 

noun
  • A little twist of some substance; a swirl. 

  • A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette. 

  • Any rotating movement; a spin. 

  • A prison guard. 

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