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; 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

And then, all of a sudden, around he went, and off the roof, kerflop into the load of sawdust.

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

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

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

From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor

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.