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flop
verb- to reside temporarily; to stay overnight US, 1907
- We rushed into a phone booth and called the Cumberland Hotel, at 54th and Broadway, where we knew the whole gang was flopping. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 173, 1946
- You ever flop into some cat’s pad? — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, p. 1954, 1954
- [T]he landlord flipped when he heard I was going to flop on the couch for three days. — William Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953–1957, p. 13, 2 January 1954
- Whenever I and the mob finished with our night’s work, I would find me the nearest hole and crawl in it and flop. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 68, 1955
- “I got nowhere to flop and nothing to get wet with.” — Malcolm Braly, It’s Cold Out There, p. 68, 1966
- Charlotte, we got no place to flop tonighht. Could you give us a floor? — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 91, 1970
- A nice old guy didn’t have a dime and never hurt nobody, gets shot in the back while he’s floppin’ in a doorway on Seventh Avenue, and you call it a tough break! — Emmett Grogan, Final Score, p. 5, 1976
- About a week or so after Bryden and I had been flopping she showed up with a 1,000-dollar check. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 169, 1990
- to go to sleep UK, 1936
- [W]aiting for householders to flop. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 68, 1956
- to fail completely US, 1900
- Your plan flopped, boss. — Chester Gould, Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler, p. 89, 1945
- Whenever they flopped, I sank way down in the dumps. — James T. Farrell, The Ain’t the Men They Used to Be, p. 81, 1955
- Why Blair’s missionary message flopped with African leaders. — The Observer, 8 September 2002
- in police work, to demote in rank or assignment US
- — New York Times, 15 February 1970
- Serpico was resigned to the fact that he would be transferred back–“flopped,” a cop would say–to the uniformed force sooner or later. — Peter Maas, Serpico, p. 97, 1973
- The reason it was a mistake is that Martin, who was subsequently flopped out of the bureau for seeking the help of Hugh Mulligan, bookmaker, loan shark, fixer, in getting a Police Department promotion, fell in love with the place. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 134, 1973
- In those days, one big collar and you were in the Detective Bureau. But now they flop you for nothing. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 17, 1977
- in bar dice games, to shake the dice in the dice cup and then roll them onto a surface US
- — Jester Smith, Games They Play in San Francisco, p. 104, 1971
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