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  • noun slang The realm of flops or failures.

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flop +‎ -dom

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Examples

  • I’m convinced that half of what dooms a movie to flopdom is marketing.

    Eric’s Top 10 Flops Turned Classics » Scene-Stealers 2008

  • He stepped close to the abyss of flopdom, looked over the edge, and stepped back.

    TV: Culture and Celebrity Scheyer, Kate 2009

  • He stepped close to the abyss of flopdom, looked over the edge, and stepped back.

    Comedy: Culture and Celebrity Murrieta, Peter 2009

  • Still a long way from flopdom, Blunt has found a more sensible level of success since his stratospheric debut, Back To Bedlam, which produced sales figures almost unheard of in the era of illegal downloads.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • Still a long way from flopdom, Blunt has found a more sensible level of success since his stratospheric debut, Back To Bedlam, which produced sales figures almost unheard of in the era of illegal downloads.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • Entertainment Weekly that he was alway confident he would get to make a trilogy of Avatar movies, even when certain industry pundits (and internet scuttlebutters … although the distinction between the two seems to be rapidly blurring) were predicting mighty flopdom.

    SFX 2010

  • Entertainment Weekly that he was alway confident he would get to make a trilogy of Avatar movies, even when certain industry pundits (and internet scuttlebutters … although the distinction between the two seems to be rapidly blurring) were predicting mighty flopdom.

    SFX 2010

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