belly-flop

1. 1.

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

   Broaderdive

   water sport

Questions about belly-flop

What does belly-flop mean?

belly-flop means "dive so that one hits the water with one's belly".

How many syllables are in belly-flop?

belly-flop has 3 syllables and divides as bel-ly--flop under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is belly-flop a common word?

belly-flop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.