Flop or variations may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Box-office flop A box-office bomb is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run. Although any film for which the combined production budget, marketing, and distribution costs exceed the revenue after release has te ...

or commercial flop, in the entertainment world

Film and television

* ''Flop'' (film), from Argentina * '' Flop Show'', an Indian TV sitcom * ''

The Flop House ''The Flop House'' is a comedy podcast about films that flop, either commercially or critically, produced every two weeks. It is made in Brooklyn, New York and hosted by Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, and Elliott Kalan. Each episode focuses ...

'', a film podcast

Music

Flop (band) Flop was an American rock band from Seattle. The band formed in 1990, released recordings on the Frontier and Sony 550 record labels, and made a brief appearance in Doug Pray's motion picture documentary '' Hype!''. History The Beginning (1990� ...

, a defunct 1990s era pop-punk group from Seattle, Washington, US * ''Flop!'', an industrial and synthpop album by the band

And One And One is a German new wave, synthpop, and EBM band founded by Steve Naghavi and Chris Ruiz in 1989. History The band formed after Steve Naghavi and Chris Ruiz met in 1989 at a Berlin club. Being fans of early EBM music, Naghavi and Ruiz deci ...

* ''Flop'' (album), by Maurizio Pisciottu

Science and technology

* Flop (algebraic geometry), a birational transformation * Flop-transition, in the string theory of physics *

FLOPS Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate measu ...

(floating point operations per second), in computing *

Flopped image In photography and graphic arts a flopped image is a static or moving image that is generated by a reversal of an original image across a vertical axis, as in a conventional mirror image. This is opposed to a ''flipped image'', which means an ima ...

, a type of mirror image in photography, graphic design, and printing * Wheel flop, a consequence of some bicycle and motorcycle geometries

Sports

Flop (basketball) In basketball, a flop is an intentional fall or stagger by a player, after little or no physical contact by an opponent, to induce an official to call a personal foul on the opponent. The move is sometimes called ''acting'', as in "acting as if he ...

, an intentional fall to claim a foul *

Diving (association football) In association football, diving is an attempt by a player to gain an unfair advantage by falling to the ground and, often, feigning injury to give the impression that a foul (football), foul has been committed. Dives are often used to exaggerat ...

, intentional fall sometimes called flop in the US *

Diving (ice hockey) Diving (also called embellishment, or flopping) is a term used in ice hockey to describe a player trying to get the attention of the referee by embellishing an infraction from an opposing player in an attempt to draw a penalty. Usually, when divi ...

* Flop shot, in golf *

Fosbury flop The Fosbury flop is a jumping style used in the track and field event of high jump. It was popularized and perfected by American athlete Dick Fosbury, whose gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City brought it to the world's attention. ...

, in high jump

Other uses

Flop (poker) The following is a glossary of poker terms used in the card game of poker. It supplements the glossary of card game terms. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon poker slang terms. This is not intended to be ...

, a poker term describing the first three cards dealt to the board *

Flophouse A flophouse (American English) or doss-house (British English) is a place that has very low-cost lodging, providing space to sleep and minimal amenities. Characteristics Historically, flophouses, or British "doss-houses", have been used for ove ...