flopperoon.
/ˌflɒpəˈruː/ North American colloquial.
A flop, failure.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > that which is a failure
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flopperoo1936
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1936 in Amer. Speech (1937) 12 18/2 John Oliver in the Richmond News-Leader for Dec. 26, 1936, terms Georgia Tech the ‘greatest flopperoo’ in football of the sports season.
1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 11 Flopperoo,..a failure.
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 58/2 The intellectually creative men with whom the future of mankind always rests will be regarded only as floperoos.
1970 R. Jeffries Dead Man's Bluff xviii. 163 His case was a real floperoo.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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