The difference between Dud and Flop
When used as nouns, dud means a device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile, whereas flop means an incident of a certain type of fall.
Flop is also adverb with the meaning: right, squarely, flat-out.
Flop is also verb with the meaning: to fall heavily due to lack of energy.
check bellow for the other definitions of Dud and Flop
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Dud as a noun (informal):
A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
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Dud as a noun (informal):
A failure of any kind.
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Dud as a noun:
A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
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Dud as a noun (obsolete, informal):
Clothes, now always used in plural form .
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Dud as a noun:
A loser, an unlucky person
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Flop as a verb (intransitive):
To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
Examples:
"He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work."
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Flop as a verb (transitive):
To cause to drop heavily.
Examples:
"The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on."
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Flop as a verb (intransitive, informal):
To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
Examples:
"The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract."
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Flop as a verb (sports, intransitive):
To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
Examples:
"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."
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Flop as a verb (intransitive):
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.
Examples:
"The brim of a hat flops."
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Flop as a verb (poker, transitive):
To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
Examples:
"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)."
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Flop as a verb (intransitive, slang):
To stay, sleep or live in a place.
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Flop as a noun:
An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
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Flop as a noun:
A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
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Flop as a noun (poker):
The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
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Flop as a noun:
A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
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Flop as an adverb:
Right, squarely, flat-out.
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Flop as an adverb:
With a flopping sound.
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Flop as a noun (computing):
One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
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Flop as a noun (computing):
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