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

• If a V-22 loses power while flying like an airplane, it should be able to glide to a rough but survivable belly-flop landing.
• He was Charlie Hustle, the man who ran out even his bases on balls, who played with a boyish exuberance and devil-may- care abandon characterized by the belly-flop, headfirst .
• Started in 1996 as a spoof of the summer Olympics held in Atlanta, the Games feature bobbing for pigs feet, hub cap hurling and the Redneck mud pit belly-flop contest.

News & Articles

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• Little girls in bikinis: Inappropriate or much ado about nothing?
  WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - At the Clarke Swim Center in Walnut Creek, children splash and belly-flop away a Friday afternoon under the sun. The girls in this 10-and-under crowd are wading in the pool wearing all the ruffles, sequins and neon colors currently trending in swimwear. Some wear one-pieces.
  July 15, 2013 - The Fayetteville Observer
• Are Airline Pilots Forgetting How to Fly?
  We don't know yet what caused Asiana Flight 214 carrying 307 people to belly-flop onto the seawall short of Runway 28L at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing two and injuring scores of others.
  July 10, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Harry Reid in Wall Street Journal
  I think [McCain] better get his reasoning straightened out, because this is a huge, big belly-flop flipflop,Reid said.
• George Will in Washington Post
  More belly-flop than swan dive . . . the strangest product launch since that of New Coke in 1985,writes columnist George Will.