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

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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 he came closer to the trunk, pawing at his head all the time and stepped, kerflop, right on another sheet-plunked his foot right down in the middle of it.

From Roy Blakely, Pathfinder by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Suddenly something went kerflop into the water, like a big fish jumping.

From Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts by Roy Rutherford Bailey

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

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