1 If a book, play, film, etc. flops, it is not successful. -- （書、戲劇、電影等）砸鍋，完全失敗
Her first book flopped, but her second became a bestseller. 她的第一本書很失敗，但是第二本成了暢銷書。
2 a failure -- 失敗，不成功
3 an occasion when someone or something falls or drops heavily -- 重重地落下（或掉下）
We cannot go flopping along like this every year, with incomes roaring ahead, and then a large increase in income tax.
The answer to that is that at the same time and in the same period there were other quotations which were not flops at all.
We have here a story of three flops.
The cash is being poured out because the buy-your-home campaign has flopped.
Indeed, it would be bad for this country if it flopped and went bust, which could happen.
Is it not also the case that that ill thought out plan has flopped badly and is monumentally unpopular with employers and its potential clients?
If the issue flops because the share price has been set too high, we hear the same yells of derision.
Is not the truth that it was one of its biggest flops?
