flopper
noun
flopper is a noun meaning “One who flops” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-P-P-E-R, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flopper is floppers.
What does flopper mean?
noun
- 1
One who flops.
- 2
The knocking down of all nine pins in one go.
- 3
USslangA person who deliberately falls down on a slippery floor or in front of an automobile etc. so as to claim compensation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flopper?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-flopper.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flopper
- floppers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flopper?
Flopper appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flopper come from?
From flop + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).