floppy

From flop + -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɒ.pi/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒpi

floppy (comparative floppier, superlative floppiest)

1. Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 3:

     The smile, the white collar worn with a dark shirt, the floppy breast-pocket handkerchief would surely be famous when the chaps in the rows behind were mere forgotten grins and frowns.

floppy (plural floppies)

1. (computing, dated) A floppy disk.
2. (military slang, Rhodesia, South Africa) An insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War, called as such for the way they "flop" when shot. ^[1]

   Synonyms: terr, gook

   • 1997, Dick Gledhill, One Commando: Rhodesia's Last Years & the Guerilla^[sic] War It Never Lost, page 55:

     "Ja, our job is not to think or make decisions. We just here to slay floppies," remarked Koos.

3. (informal) A comic book.
   • 2013, Nickie D. Phillips, Staci Strobl, Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way, page 226:

     We suggest that the impact of comic books is greater than it may first appear. Though individual sales of floppies may be low compared to, say, dollar grosses on motion pictures or may reach fewer viewers than a summer blockbuster […]

• pop fly

From English floppy.

floppy

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) floppy disk (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
   • 1998 February 17, 網路超人, “Acer賤機點format好?”, in hk.entertainment‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Acer有無隻boot機floppy俾你!!?? [Cantonese, trad.]
     Acer有无只boot机floppy俾你!!?? [Cantonese, simp.]

     Acer jau⁵ mou⁵ zek³ boot gei¹ floppy bei² nei⁵!!?? [Jyutping]

     Does Acer have a boot floppy for you!!??