floppy
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
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Origin of floppy
Example Sentences
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As Betty Boop became more popular, Natwick revised his design to swap the character’s floppy dog’s ears for bangle earrings and shrinking her nose.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
The group of partyers with floppy hair that Johnson moved in with called themselves the Sway House and developed a reputation as the bad boys of early TikTok.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
With his gym clothes, cross necklace, floppy hair, and singular fixation on linking all of his efforts and successes to his faith, the 19-year-old Pittman looked like the archetype of the Southern Christian sports bro.
From Slate • Jan. 22, 2026
Evidence on VHS tapes and floppy disks required resurrected 1980s computers to view and modern facial-recognition tools had to be used to track fans' movements frame by frame.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025
He was wearing a floppy beret and an ascot like movie directors sometimes do—in cartoons.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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