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The sound of ambition meeting gravity, recorded in real time.
means To fail completely and conspicuously, often after high hopes — or the limp, heavy way a body or object drops when it gives up entirely.
from An echoic word, born from the very sound it names — the soft, dull thud of something falling slack. It surfaced in English around the 17th century as a variant of 'flap,' but where 'flap' suggests energetic motion, 'flop' deflates: the same gesture, all the spring gone out of it. The theatrical sense — a show that 'flops' — is a later figurative leap, the audience's hopes hitting the floor with the same heavy sound.
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