Where does “flop” come from?
flop (Indonesian) comes from Dutch flop, from English FLOP, from English floating-point operation — Alternative form of floating point operation.
flop (Indonesian): failure, something that went wrong; flop, to...
Definitions
- failure, something that went wrong; flop, to...
Ancestry of “flop”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | flop | A failure, something that went wrong; short for... |
| 2 | English | FLOP | Synonym of flop |
| 3 | English | floating-point operation | Alternative form of floating point operation |