Definition of floppy
floppier
;floppiest
: tending to flop; especially : being both soft and flexible
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Examples of floppy in a Sentence
my basset hound is always tripping over her long, floppy ears
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Options include digging up buried treasure, hauling a nuclear bomb across skeleton country, and storing up floppy disks for the technocrats.
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One is thin and floppy and foldable, while the other requires roughly seven pounds of butter and an hour to cook.
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And that floppy, weirdly heavy rubber frog that somersaults toward the rotating lily pads?
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On the cheaper end, floppy disks were $3.25, a 1974 RadioShack catalog has a high bid of $12.25, and a Tandy Corp. pen was listed for $9.25.
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By the time of Mr. Bond’s death, Paddington Bear — with his immediately recognizable duffel coat, floppy hat and Wellington boots — had joined Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit and A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh among celebrity literary animals.
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The 'we're-still-using-floppy-disks' meme is a hearty perennial for all new administrations.
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There were crocheted flowers, large and floppy like shower caps dangling from yarn ribbons.
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The flan is a floppy little cylinder of creamy, eggy, sugary custard with citrus notes and a side of tahini (sesame seeds) crumble.
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First Known Use of floppy
1858
floppy
Definition of floppy
floppies
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The next, the ricotta inside floppy tortellini got an extra spur from lemon zest.
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First Known Use of floppy
1974
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floppier
;floppiest
: being soft and flexible a big floppy hat
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