megaflop
Americannoun
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megaflops
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of megaflop
C20: from mega- + flo ( ating ) p ( oint )
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Remember RIPD, the megaflop starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds as a pair of cops on the supernatural beat?
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2017
His exit comes after Disney was forced to take a $200 million write-down tied to the science-fiction megaflop “John Carter.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2012
A guaranteed way for the modern equivalent of Mel Brooks’s producers to produce a megaflop?
From Economist ● Mar. 29, 2012
How to make a megaflop MEL BROOKS’S classic comedy, “The Producers”, tells of two crooks who try to cheat their investors by producing a sure-fire theatrical flop.
From Economist ● Mar. 29, 2012
Retailing is still dodgy: Virgin megastores were a megaflop in Germany, but are thriving from Los Angeles to Paris to Tokyo.
From Time Magazine Archive
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