kerflop
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of kerflop
Example Sentences
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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
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
By thy fake propositions are we led To get quite chesty, when it's buff! kerflop!!
From The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum by Wallace Irwin
Suddenly something went kerflop into the water, like a big fish jumping.
From Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts by Roy Rutherford Bailey
The first I knew about it he came out of the hopper kerflop.
From The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by James R. Mears
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