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BELLY-FLOP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: belly-flopped    , belly-flopping   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dive so that one hits the water with one's belly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "belly-flop" is one way to...):

dive (plunge into water)

Domain category:

aquatics; water sport (sports that involve bodies of water)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

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