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

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Example Sentences

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kerflop

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

Then, good night! all of a sudden I went kerflop off the barrel.

From Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings

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 James R. Mears

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 Gene Stratton-Porter

All of a sudden, good night, over he went backwards, kerflop, into the marshy land just underneath the sign.

From Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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