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

Pretty soon we must have got over into the old creek bed, because we stumbled and went kerflop in, and the next thing we knew, we were swimming.

From Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese

By thy fake propositions are we led To get quite chesty, when it's buff! kerflop!!

From The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum by Irwin, Wallace

Down he came, kerflop, in the street, stubbing his toe as he tried to catch his balance.

From Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts by Bailey, Roy Rutherford

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 Fitzhugh, Percy Keese