Difference between Flop and Bust

What is the difference between Flop and Bust?

Flop as a verb is to fall heavily, because lacking energy. while Bust as a verb is alteration of burst

Flop

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fall heavily, because lacking energy. To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Right, squarely, flat-out. With a flopping sound.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry. The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game. A place to stay, sleep or live. See flophouse A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop. A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.

Example sentence: If I flop, let 'em pan me.

Bust

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: without any money, broke

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shouldersThe breasts and upper thorax of a womanThe act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation: a narcotics bustA failed enterprise; a bomb

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Alteration of burstTo break somethingTo arrest for a crimeTo catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.An emphatic to do

Example sentence: I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.

We hope you now know whether to use Flop or Bust in your sentence.

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