flopping

English

Verb

flopping

1. present participle and gerund of flop

Noun

flopping (plural floppings)

1. The motion of something that flops.
   • 1916, Ezra Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir:

     […] it belongs to the realm of magnetic currents or to the binding properties of steel girders and not to the floppings of grass or the contours of the parochial churchyard.

Derived terms

• Rabi flopping