flopperoo N. Amer. colloq.
(ˌflɒpəˈruː)
Also floperoo.
[f. flop v. 2 d; cf. -eroo.]
A flop, failure.
| 1936 in Amer. Speech (1937) XII. 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 Lou Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 11 Flopperoo,..a failure. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 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. |