kerflop

[ker-flop]

adverb

Informal.

1. with or as if with a flop.

   He fell kerflop.

Word History and Origins

Origin of kerflop¹

First recorded in 1875–80; ker-, flop

Example Sentences

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

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

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“Kerflop!” and down he went, and did not stop until he stood once more in the same dark, ugly, dirty hole.

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Dum was ready to push her back in the water and kerflop! she went before Zebedee could come to her aid.

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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.

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