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flop
noun- a place to spend the night US, 1910
- “I ain’t got a flop. Can you let me have the price?” — Willard Motley, Knock on Any Door, p. 157, 1947
- [H]e himself is completely conscious not only of the old barbershop and the old B movie and bouncing his tennis ball downtown streets of Denver and the bum flops and poolhalls. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Carl Solomon, p. 329, 27 December 1951
- I decided to grab a bite before I scouted up a flop for the night[.] — Robert Edmond Alter, Carny Kill, p. 12, 1966
- If he had a dollar he could get him a 52 cent flop and a bowl of soup. — John Gimenez, Up Tight!, p. 79, 1967
- [A]nd a regretful return to the monotonous rounds of one-nighter, or at most, bi-monthly, exchange of flops[.] — Neal Cassady, The First Third, p. 133, 1971
- I tailspinned down to Tijuana, found a flop and a bottle of drugstore hop, and went prowling for Maggie Cordova. — James Ellroy, Hollywood Nocturnes, p. 291, 1994
- a house or garage where criminals escaping from the scene of a crime can safely hide themselves or store weapons, tools and stolen property, thus leaving their own homes uncompromised UK
- — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 52, 1996
- a drunk sleeping in public US, 1949
- A sleeping lush–known as a “flop” in the trade–attracts a hierarchy of scavengers. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 43, 1953
- a complete, dismal failure US, 1919
- “Just another flop,” he said to nobody in particular. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 74, 1956
- He enjoyed a succession of resounding flops, and each night he came home screaming like a wounded thing. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 62, 1964
- Clare Short, the international development secretary, reopened the controversy on Thursday night when she dismissed the [Millennium] dome as a “disaster” and a “flop” — The Guardian, 23 September 2000
- a demotion US
- Once the flop is in the record only the heaviest of hooks–the PC or the mayor himself–could ever restore the policeman to his previous eminence. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 171, 1973
- the denial of a release on parole by a prison parole board US, 1944
- I been to the parole board and they hit me with a year flop. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 130, 1973
- an arrest, conviction and/or imposition of a prison sentence US, 1904
- He act like he knows ... That man ever took a flop there people would pass him around, everybody have a piece. — Elmore Leonard, Stick, p. 99, 1983
- in hold ’em poker, the first three cards dealt face-up in the centre of the table US
- — Anthony Holden, Big Deal, p. 300, 1990
- in a dice game, a roll of the dice US
- — Frank Garcia, Marked Cards and Loaded Dice, p. 262, 1962
- the ear US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Dictionary, p. 11, 1945
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