kerflop

[ ker-flop ]

adverb

, Informal.

1. with or as if with a flop:

   He fell kerflop.

Word History and Origins

Origin of kerflop¹

First recorded in 1875–80; ker-, flop

Example Sentences

The first I knew about it he came out of the hopper kerflop.

From Project Gutenberg

I jumped up to dig him out, and then I went kerflop with a load of ore on my back.

From Project Gutenberg

“Kerflop!” and down he went, and did not stop until he stood once more in the same dark, ugly, dirty hole.

From Project Gutenberg

Dum was ready to push her back in the water and kerflop! she went before Zebedee could come to her aid.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1965, two years after the couple had broken up, McNally saw his own first full-length play, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, go kerflop on Broadway.

From Time Magazine Archive