noun
floppy
a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer
In a sentence
Six example sentences with floppy, each labelled with its topic.
Every install came on a stack of eleven floppies, and one bad sector on number seven ruined the whole afternoon.
Technology
Save files lived on a single floppy, so a younger sibling could erase a hundred hours by mislabeling it.
Gaming
A museum case in Mountain View displays a floppy beside a punch card, and visitors under twenty recognize neither.
History
The old sampler loads each drum kit from a floppy, and the drive whirs for thirty seconds before the first sound plays.
Music
The observatory's 1988 data survives only on a floppy in a drawer, and the lab keeps one working drive to read it.
Science
The accountant kept every year's ledger on a labeled floppy until the auditor asked for a format anyone could open.
Business
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