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

By thy fake propositions are we led To get quite chesty, when it's buff! kerflop!!

From The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum by Irwin, Wallace

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

From The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by Mears, James R.

They both fell kerflop in front of 'im.

From Westerfelt by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)

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