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belly flop

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A dive in which the front of the body hits flat against a surface, especially of water.

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  • noun diving A style of diving into a body of water in which the surface impact is made mostly by one's abdomen.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water

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synonyms (24)

Words with the same meaning

  1. belly buster
  2. belly flopper
  3. belly whop
  4. belly whopper
  5. cannonball
  6. crash dive
  7. dive
  8. drop
  9. fall
  10. gainer
  11. header
  12. jackknife
  13. nose dive
  14. parachute jump
  15. pitch
  16. plunge
  17. pounce
  18. power dive
  19. running dive
  20. sky dive
  21. stationary dive
  22. stoop
  23. swan dive
  24. swoop

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. dive
  2. diving

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