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flopping
verb as in fall limply, collapse
verb as in fail miserably
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They have found some fish flopping helplessly along the banks, and masses of dead fish scattered on the riverbed by the hundreds.
Donald Trump's been flipping and flopping like a panicked fish these days on the issue of abortion.
The “Cry Me a River” video captures the L.A. rapper flopping around in a raggedy tent adjoining a rail yard.
The mattresses were fairly cheap, but sales of the heavy wood frames that kept the mattresses from flopping around, plus water heaters and conditioners, brought in big bucks.
Some 1,100 to 1,200 sea lions have been counted flopping on and around the docks at San Francisco’s Pier 39 in recent days — the highest number recorded in 15 years.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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