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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Word of the Day: verbal flop

verbal flop (vur'-buhl flahp) noun. An exaggerated groan, scream, or cry of frustration that is emitted for the sole purpose of drawing a foul. Usually accompanied by a grimace of pain and anguish.

Usage example: Even though the defenders were either standing still or had a hand on the ball, Kobe was able to draw the foul with a verbal flop.

Word History: In Patrick Hruby's ESPN.com article The Art of the Flop, Dallas guard Jason Terry refers to Laker guard Kobe Bryant as a "verbal flopper, able to coax a call out of a single well-timed scream."

verbal flop
Eric Snow is standing still. Lebron has the ball.
But Kobe still draws the foul with a verbal flop.
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous3/21/2006 4:45 PM

    As we always say when we play pickup/rec league ball, just because you yell doesn't mean there was a foul.

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  2. Anonymous11/12/2008 12:09 PM

    That's definitely not LeBron in the headband.

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  3. Unknown11/14/2008 10:08 PM

    ya man NOT LEBRON
    looks more like hughes?

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  4. Unknown5/04/2009 10:57 PM

    Flip Murray. Jeff Van Gundy made reference to the verbal flop on air earlier this year. I thought it was an original observation at the time.

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  5. Gabriel6/20/2009 1:35 PM

    A foul wasn't even called on this play. Murray stole the ball and Kobe got a tech for whining.

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  6. Anonymous6/28/2010 1:25 PM

    PAUL "I'm the best player in the world" Pierce is the grandmaster of all verbal flops -

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