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

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

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

All I know is, I heard my Scout Handbook go kerflop on the floor and Vic Norris of the Ravens grabbed the Silver Fox emblem right out of my hand and began waving it.

From Roy Blakeley by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Say, boys, I guess 'at none o' you Has ever seen my sister Sue, She kin rassle an' turn han'springs kerflop, But Jimmy Crimps!—ye should see her hop!

From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by John Wolcott Adams

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