floppy
tending to flop.
Origin of floppy
1Other words from floppy
- flop·pi·ly, adverb
- flop·pi·ness, noun
Words Nearby floppy
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How to use floppy in a sentence
We’ve rounded up the best of the bunch, from cat trees to a floppy fish cat toy to automatic cat toys, and more to keep your cat happy and entertained throughout all her nine lives.
Best cat toys: Your favorite feline will give two paws up to these cat accessories | Irena Collaku | July 21, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe animals developed different coat patterns, floppier ears, tails that curled over their backs—totally unknown in wild foxes.
The Hawks use him in floppy action, staggered double screens, screen-for-screener plays and as the third man in Spain pick and rolls.
Bogdan Bogdanović Turned His Season Around. Can He Help The Hawks Beat The Knicks? | Jared Dubin | May 26, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightOur room is four feet by eight feet, which is a great size for spreading out a yoga mat and having extra space off the sides for floppy knees or elbows.
Feel free to put on your sunglasses and a floppy hat while you read if it helps make you feel a little more tropical.
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So the discs get all floppy, swollen, pop out left, pop out right.
Why Is Louis C.K. So Funny? He Uses Humor as a Moral Compass. | Andrew Romano | May 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis hair is less gray than it is now, less bristly, more floppy.
The 29-year-old actor, with his floppy hair and nerd-cute, Everyman attractiveness, looks like the Nice Guy.
John Gallagher Jr., Star of ‘Newsroom’ and ‘Short Term 12,’ Is Hollywood’s Nicest Guy | Kevin Fallon | August 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe woman who grasped Britain's unions by the neck and hurled them repeatedly against the wall, like some floppy rag doll.
How Margaret Thatcher Transformed British Politics | Tunku Varadarajan | April 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI wear a floppy bonnet with peacock feathers and whisper Hail Marys under my breath until noon, when I break for snacks.
"We are ready," said Nancy, tying the white ribbons of a floppy straw hat under Anne-Marie's chin.
The Devourers | Annie Vivanti ChartresBy whisking the joss-sticks around by their floppy handles you can make all sorts of fiery circles.
Us and the Bottleman | Edith Ballinger PriceDulcie wore embroidered white and a floppy hat, and her eyes when she talked to Mills were worshipful.
The Gay Cockade | Temple BaileyThey were now the most ridiculous looking things imaginable, wings floppy, heads hanging.
Two Little Savages | Ernest Thompson SetonUnder her mammoth floppy hat reminding you of an early summer rose.
Turns about Town | Robert Cortes Holliday
British Dictionary definitions for floppy
/ (ˈflɒpɪ) /
limp or hanging loosely: a dog with floppy ears
Derived forms of floppy
- floppily, adverb
- floppiness, noun
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