Where does “Flop” come from?

Flop (German) comes from English FLOP, from English floating-point operation — Alternative form of floating point operation.

Flop (German): flop (failure, especially in the entertainment industry)

Definitions

  1. flop (failure, especially in the entertainment industry)

Ancestry of “Flop”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishFLOPSynonym of flop
2Englishfloating-point operationAlternative form of floating point operation
Every word from English floating-point operation →Every word from English FLOP →
Flop — Etymology, Origin & Word History | Etymology Explorer