subs. (American).—A day’s tramp, as opposed to a SOT-DOWN = half a day’s travel.
1888. Detroit Free Press, 15 Sept. ‘Stranger, did ye lope it?’ (come on foot). ‘Yes.’ ‘A mile or a sot down?’ ‘More’n that. About a dozen FLOP-UPS.’
FLOP-UP-TIME = Bedtime.
[FLOP, too, is something of a vocable of all-work. Thus TO FLOP IN = (venery) to effect intromission; TO FLOP ROUND = to loaf; to dangle; TO FLOP A JUDY = to lay out, or ‘SPREAD’ (q.v.), a girl; TO DO A FLOP = (colloquial) to sit, or to fall, down, and (venery) to lie down to a man; TO FLOP OUT = to leave the water noisily and awkwardly; belly-FLOPPING = belly-bumping, coition; a FLOP in the gills = a smack in the mouth.
