An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
FLOPPED
FLOP
flop
(verb) fall suddenly and abruptly
flop
(verb) fall loosely; “He flopped into a chair”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
flopped
simple past tense and past participle of flop
Source: Wiktionary
FLOP
Flop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Flopping.] Etym: [A variant of flap.]
1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.] Fielding.
Flop, v. i.
1. To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
2. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.] Dickens.
Flop, n.
Definition: Act of flopping. [Colloq.] W. H. Russell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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