Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tending to flop; loose and flexible. See Synonyms at limp.
- n. A floppy disk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a tendency to flop or flap; flapping: as, a floppy hat.
Wiktionary
- adj. Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.
- n. computing A floppy disk
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Having a tendency to flop or flap.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. hanging limply
- n. a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer
Etymologies
- flop + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I use the term floppy because, well, they are, for one thing and also, to differentiate between monthly, floppy comics and the world's comics of preference, those with a spine and (usually) a complete story, graphic novels.”
“The 3. 5in floppy disk, once an icon of the computer age, is to be cleared from the shelves of PC World as demand for disks plummets.”
“I don't normally go outside in floppy pants and a sweatshirt.”
“In your case John, I think a 3 floppy is more appropriate.”
“A shrink-wrapped version of Windows 95 on floppy, is included with the laptop.”
“Perhaps a “me day” every so often is not out of order, a day to wander around the house in floppy yoga pants and yellow slipper socks, a day to eat only toast with honey or chocolate cake if those are the things the palate desires, a day to have an open book on every comfy chair in the house, ready to be picked up as you amble through the room, a day of not answering telephones, not paying bills, not reading the mail.”
“That's what one recent study has found with regard to a rare eye disorder called floppy eyelid syndrome”
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“Therefore a “blank” floppy, which is known to be “blank”, contains zero Shannon bits of information.”
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“A style guide is also helpful: “Is it called a floppy disc or a diskette?”.”
“It used the newest technology of the day, called floppy discs, and the operating system was made by a little company in Seattle named Microsoft.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘floppy’.
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Sound Sex
taciturn, deflower, recursive, parapraxis, comitative, atelic, awkward, eccentric, libidinous, astereognosis, aloof, moonglade and 50 more...
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Computers changed everything
Words that were well established before they gained special use in computing systems.
server, protocol, interface, bug, spam, virus, mouse, program, hack, chip, drive, window and 61 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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Favorite Words
quixotic, assonance, palindrome, plebeian, mezzanine, propinquity, etymology, antihero, intrepid, refractions, lawless, sesquipedalian and 237 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Winter's Bone vocabulary
Study list of difficult words from Daniel Woodrell's novel Winter's Bone. In reverse order: start at the bottom to see words from the beginning of the novel!
plaid, lazy susan, lope, furtive, dour, scamper, hard-boiled, implacable, dainty, stomp, resignation, crank and 138 more...
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Alphaliterals
Words having the letters in alphabetical order. Only words of six or more letters are listed here.
For reverse alphabetical order see Retroliterals. For words and phrases with the vowels in a...abbess, abbott, abhors, accent, accept, access, accost, adders, adeems, aegilops, afflux, agloos and 58 more...
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4 Color World
Comics!
comic, comic book, comic strip, graphic novel, comix, manga, manhua, manhwa, bande dessinée, panel, gutter, writer and 49 more...
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words with letters in alphabetical order
abbey, abbot, abort, accent, accept, access, accost, adept, adopt, aegis, affix, afoot and 41 more...
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computer hardware
case, cpu, fan, psu, power supply unit, video card, sound card, cdrom, dvdrom, motherboard, daughterboard, pci and 12 more...
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