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Definition of belly flopsnext
plural of belly flop

belly flops

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verb

present tense third-person singular of belly flop

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for belly flops
Verb
  • The result is a formula that brightens, smooths, and plumps mature skin all at once.
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 24 Jan. 2026
  • It's packed with niacinamide, which plumps the skin and smooths out texture.
    Ruby McAuliffe, InStyle, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This season, he has been used to get flick-ons for headers or run behind defences and get on the end of crosses or Fernandes’ through balls.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Glow-in-the-dark outsoles represent glowing engine headers, and the shoe’s color-shifting eggplant purple upper takes a page from custom car wraps.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The movie plunks us down at Mar-a-Lago, where Melania struts out the door and into the back of an SUV, which will take her to the red-white-and-blue private plane painted with the word TRUMP that’s waiting for her at the airport.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Each January, Stoever makes a maximum contribution to a Roth IRA and plunks another chunk of cash in a solo 401(k).
    Ryan Ermey Lauren Shamo, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Unlike hunting for coupons or waiting for a sale at other stores, Costco’s pricing on Boursin tends to stay reliably the same throughout the year—and sometimes the price even dips cheaper.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Nguyen notes that flat bench presses are effective for building your middle chest, incline presses emphasize the upper chest, and decline presses and dips target the lower chest muscle fibers.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The agency did not specify the manner of death, but domestic media have reported falls from rooftops as people tried to clear away massive mounds.
    Reuters, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Sprout supports whole-body behaviors, including walking, kneeling, crawling, compliant physical interaction, and recovery from falls, alongside core capabilities such as teleoperation, mapping, navigation, and expressive human–robot interaction primitives.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The final battle In the Upside Down, Eleven submerges herself in the tank and enters the Void with Kali (Linnea Berthelsen) and Max (Sadie Sink) telepathically piggybacking off of her.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Laura escapes her grasp and submerges Cherry, which Daniel witnesses.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sharp drops hit Wall Street on Thursday as technology stocks fell and bitcoin plunged again to roughly half its record price set last fall.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Kidder says if scent is the goal, then a few drops of essential oil mixed into baking soda works well.
    Ashlyn Needham, The Spruce, 5 Feb. 2026
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“Belly flops.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belly%20flops. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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