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floppy

Synonyms

Adjective

1. lax

Noun

1. diskette

2. floppy disk, magnetic disk, magnetic disc, disk, disc

Usage
What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks - IEEE Spectrum
Mum 'screamed and ran' after seeing baby 'floppy' at Somerset home - court - BBC
Floppy disks get a second life at Cambridge University Library - NPR
Engineer installs 3.5-inch floppy drive in a Tesla — modern EV recognizes and runs ancient storage device, even plays an MP3 file from diskette - Tom's Hardware
Do their ears hang low? The genetics of dogs’ adorable floppy ears - Nature
I plugged my old floppy disks into an Android - here's what happened - Pocket-lint
Floppy Eyelid Syndrome - The New England Journal of Medicine
The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks - Popular Science
You Can Fit an Entire OS and Web Server on a Floppy Disk - Hackster.io
All it takes to run Factorio off 1,000 floppies is to code your own file system and a week to load the game - PC Gamer
Airplanes Still Use Floppy Disks For Their Software - Here's Why - bgr.com
Chivalware Preview – Bringing a floppy drive to a roguelite fight - TheSixthAxis
Fits on a floppy - Adafruit
Developer turns old floppy drive into media remote for son - The Register
I plugged a 3.5-inch floppy disk reader into my Android phone, and it just worked - XDA
The Floppy Disk patent was granted today in 1972 — when 80KB took up 8 inches and were really floppy - Tom's Hardware
Self-assembly pathways towards floppy colloidal square lattices - Nature
I ran a modern-day Linux distro off a floppy disk, and here's how it went - XDA
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks - BBC
Floppy disk drive converted into smart TV remote for kids — dev’s toddler inserts vividly labeled floppies to watch his favorite shows - Tom's Hardware
Floppy disk pre-paid cash card launched in Taiwan — NFC payment method 'only has a card function' warns supplier, so keep it out of your FDD - Tom's Hardware
That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026 - The Register
Sony's 200MB floppy disk was supposed to bury Zip drives—then it all fell apart in one month - How-To Geek
Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks - Tom's Hardware
Print Pixel Art To A Floppy Disk - Hackaday
Bristol court hears how mother found her baby floppy and grey in murder trial of father - The Guardian
From floppy discs to Claude Mythos, how ransomware grew into a multibillion-dollar industry - The Conversation
From Floppy Disks to the AI Frontier: Microsoft’s Four Decades of Innovation in Ireland - Microsoft Source
Linux On A Floppy: Still (Just About) Possible - Hackaday
Air traffic still runs on floppy discs in places, so the FAA just picked 2 companies for a $26 billion radar overhaul - Fortune
Bernoulli Disk Goes “Wii!” When Plugged Into WiiU - Hackaday
Zip drives were supposed to end the floppy era—until one design flaw destroyed everything - How-To Geek
Developer turns floppy disks into secret black-and-white picture canvases — pbm2track "paints" pixel art into the disk's magnetic timing diagram - Tom's Hardware
Floppy Disks Just Became the Ultimate Kid-Proof TV Remote - TechEBlog -
Missing police dog Floppy found dead - Daily Dispatch
Someone ran Factorio off of 1,000 AOL floppy disks, and it took way too long - XDA
Someone ran a modern-day Linux distro off a floppy disk, and it looks more fun than it should be - XDA
America's Air Traffic Control Still Uses Floppy Disks: Here's The $12.5 Billion Fix - Simple Flying
Diskette Game Floppy Flopper Is Certainly No Flop - Hackaday
RFIDisk: When Floppy Drives Go Contactless - Hackaday
A final act of bravery: SAPS K9 Floppy dies in police operation | PE Express - novanews.co.za
Residents rally as search for missing police dog Floppy continues in Eastern Cape - Daily Maverick
Why Cambridge University Library is safeguarding floppy disk knowledge - IT Brew
Ultra rare floppy disk game twisted and slashed into shards by US Customs or DHL checkers — ruined Tsukihime 1999 demo was one of only 50 ever produced - Tom's Hardware
I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops - PC Gamer
Floppy disk hack: How a pair of scissors doubled your storage in 1992 - Yahoo Tech
Stephen Hawking’s Floppy Disks & the Digital Legacy of Science: An Interview with Leontien Talboom - AIP.ORG
Linux's Floppy Disk Driver Code Sees Some Cleanups In 2025 - Phoronix
NFC Hidden In Floppy Disk For Retro-Themed PC - Hackaday
San Francisco's Muni Metro Still Runs On Floppy Disks - Here's Why - bgr.com
Floppy the police dog found shot dead in bush after heroic pursuit of armed robbers - News24
forgotten computer floppy disks return to life as large-scale portrait paintings - Designboom
Before the USB flash drive: 5 'floppy killers' that lost the retro storage war - How-To Geek
The 30-Year Nostalgia Cycle Has Me Actually Excited for a PC With Fake Floppy Drives - Gizmodo
We Can't Get Enough of These 14 Dogs With Floppy Ears - Daily Paws
The SuperDisk was a better floppy, but the world didn't want a better floppy - How-To Geek
Floppy Tri-Color Bernedoodle Looks Like a Melted S’more—and Everyone’s Obsessed - Yahoo
Floppy disks, burned CDs, and tape drives: How we survived before the cloud - How-To Geek
Floppy Emu Apple ][ Case Base for Apple Extended Keyboard #3DPrinting #3DThursday - Adafruit
This Engineer Got a Tesla To Play Rick Astley From a Retro Floppy Disk - Hypebeast
Orphaned Linux drivers for floppy disks gets first patch of any significance in three years - cleanup effort implies floppies spared the axe for a few more years - Tom's Hardware
Commodore 64 floppy drive has the power to be a computer — bulky 1982 Commodore 1541 5.25 inch drive packs a 1 MHz MOS 6502 CPU - Tom's Hardware
Someone built a floppy disk TV remote control for kids and it actually works - BetaNews
This 25-Year-Old Sony Camera Uses Floppy Disks Instead of SD Cards - Currently.com
I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch - Kottke.org
Airplanes Still Use Floppy Disks For Their Software - Here's Why - AOL.com
Cisco: From the floppy disk to hyper-personalized AI - Network World
BEAMS Just Turned a $60 Floppy Disk Into Your Next Wallet - Yanko Design
Hero K9 'Floppy' found shot dead after armed robbery pursuit - Algoa FM
One Of The Rarest Video Games Deliberately Ruined In Shipping - Kotaku
Playing with Floppy Disks — Literally! - Hackster.io
Say Goodbye To Floppy Peonies With Amazon's Sturdy Support Cages - Yahoo
First-Time Parents' Gut Instinct About Son Led to a Diagnosis So Rare That Roughly Only 50 Cases in the World Exist - Parade
If you regret not living through the floppy disk era why not try this 3D printed Linux project that uses the cartridges to launch games - Currently.com
It Seems Your Tesla Will Recognize A 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive - Yahoo Autos
Don’t copy that floppy – Gobliiins Collection is out today on consoles - Games Asylum
YouTuber recreates a floppy disk from scratch - Engadget
Dog gone it! Help find Eastern Cape K9 unit’s Floppy, gone missing amid robbery gun battle - News24
Don’t Copy That Floppy: King’s Quest and the Fight Against Piracy - University of Waterloo
Prisoner laments reliance on floppy disks for appeals documents, limiting file sizes to 1.44 MB — prisoners allowed 20 floppy disks in cell, but USB flash sticks are banned in New Jersey system - Yahoo
How Come Wild Animals Don't Have Floppy Ears? The Clue Is In Your Dog - IFLScience
US prisoner says legal fight trapped in 1985 as floppy disks replace modern storage for crucial court appeal documents - TechRadar
Floppy disks live on - Linux drivers get first update for years, perhaps signalling a comeback for the much-loved system? - TechRadar
Bernoulli Drive - Hackaday
This Isn’t Just a Floppy Disk, But Also a Web Server Running an Operating System - TechEBlog -
3.5-inch floppy concept becomes packaging for SD cards, protecting today’s terabyte storage with retro charm - TechRadar
Floppy Ears, Big Heart: Meet Batty! - WSBT
Floppy disk-inspired SD card concept brings retro charm to modern tech - Yanko Design
Windows 95, With Just A Floppy Drive - Hackaday
The Millennials: from floppy disks to the Cloud - Sul Informação
Mum 'screamed and ran' after finding newborn 'grey and floppy' - Somerset Live
A step back in time as a YouTuber revives floppy disk technology using tools from today’s maker world - TechRadar
Muni says it’s ready to modernize S.F.’s subway, by tossing the floppy disks that control it - San Francisco Chronicle
Police patrol dog Floppy killed in the line of duty in the Eastern Cape - LNN - Network News - The Citizen
San Francisco's SFMTA train system has been running on floppy disks for decades; city fears 'catastrophic failure' before upgrade - ABC7 Bay Area
This whack-a-mole with floppy disks running on an Amiga looks equal parts hilarious and surprisingly difficult - PC Gamer
From floppy disks to forever: scientists find new way to preserve data that outlasts civilisations - Euronews.com
The Boeing 747 Still Uses Floppy Disks For Software Updates: Here's Why - Jalopnik
Does U.S. traffic control still use floppy disks? - pandasecurity.com
Introducing a Limited Floppy Edition of Cyberpunk 2077! - cyberpunk.net
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'floppy'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
loppy,   flopy,   flopoy,   flopy,   flloppy,   flop[y,   flpppy,   flppy,   floopy,   flo[py,   ffloppy,   flopyp,   flopppy,   dloppy,   f;oppy,   flopppy,   gloppy,   fkoppy,   foppy,   flooppy,   flippy,   flopp,   folppy,   floppyy,   lfoppy,   floppu,   floppt,   flpopy
Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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