flopper
Americannoun
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floppers
plural
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a person, especially a politician, who leaves their original side or opinion in order to join the opposing side.
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a person who commits fraud by purposely falling, often as if hit by a moving vehicle, in order to collect damages.
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Jokic takes great pride in that sort of mantra, rising from a player whose game was once maligned — flopper, slow feet, poor defender — to what he is today.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2022
How is New England like the notorious soccer flopper Neymar?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
And so Brazilians manage to hold two ideas in their head about Neymar: He is both a football genius and a flopper.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2018
These are hallmarks of a fence-sitter, of a flipper and flopper in changing winds.
From US News ● Jun. 2, 2015
Sometimes the pursuit of a flopper brought one of them within ten feet of where he stood, but they went about their business of snatch and dash and never seemed to notice him—until now.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
Existing NBA rules punish repeat floppers with fines after postgame reviews.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2023
“That’s not natural counter-movement. That’s what floppers do.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2019
The bigger issue is that some floppers are like Lobaton: subtle and effective at their craft.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2016
Borrowing from the language of soccer, they write, “America is turning into a country of floppers, figuratively grabbing our shins in fabricated agony over every little possible offense in hopes of working the refs.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2015
“Back up a minute. If wounded birds are floppers, what do you call dead birds?”
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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