kerflop

American  

[ker-flop] / kərˈflɒp /

adverb

Informal.

1. with or as if with a flop.

   He fell kerflop.

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Etymology

Origin of kerflop

First recorded in 1875–80; see origin at ker-, flop

Example Sentences

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

Then, good night! all of a sudden I went kerflop off the barrel.

From Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)

All I know is, I heard my Scout Handbook go kerflop on the floor and Vic Norris of the Ravens grabbed the Silver Fox emblem right out of my hand and began waving it.

From Roy Blakeley by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese

Then he came closer to the trunk, pawing at his head all the time and stepped, kerflop, right on another sheet-plunked his foot right down in the middle of it.

From Roy Blakely, Pathfinder by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese

Suddenly something went kerflop into the water, like a big fish jumping.

From Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts by Bailey, Roy Rutherford