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

Every time I take them, down I come kerflop, mostly in a 'gulf of dark despair,' as the hymn book says.

From A Daughter of the Land by Stratton-Porter, Gene

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

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

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

Wal, sir, I doubled up like a jack-knife, and went down kerflop.

From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor