flopsweat

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A form of flop sweat — Sweat due to nervousness, especially fear of failure.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounflopsweat (countable and uncountable, plural flopsweats)

plural flopsweats

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of flop sweat.

    The movie is 89 minutes of inertia and pure, undiluted flopsweat, with a couple of uncharacteristically unfunny and painfully awkward lead performances from Will Ferrell (as Holmes) and John C. Reilly (as Watson).

    2018 December 25, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly hit career lows in the abysmally unfunny Holmes & Watson”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2019
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APA

flopsweat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flopsweat

MLA

“flopsweat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flopsweat. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flopsweat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flopsweat.

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