soft, flexible, and bending easily, often in a loose or limp way
Her floppy hat kept falling over her eyes in the wind.
The wilted flowers had floppy stems after days without water.
✦ From English flop ("to fall loosely") + -y (suffix forming adjectives). First used in the early 19th century.
a floppy disk, an early flexible magnetic disk used for storing computer data
Do you have a drive that can read this old floppy?
She inserted the floppy into the computer to load the game.
✦ Clipping of floppy disk, coined in the 1970s when these flexible disks replaced rigid ones.
