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Painful Dive Crossword Clue

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verb

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

32%4 Belly ___ (painful dive)
noun

• an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers

• someone who is unsuccessful

• a complete failure

• the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink

adverb

• with a flopping sound

• completely

verb

• fall loosely

• fall suddenly and abruptly

• fail utterly; collapse

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Telegraph Quick26 Mar 2023 Across 14 BELLY FLOP
The Guardian Quick19 Apr 2007 Across 9
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