Box-office bomb
The crossword clue "Box-office bomb" is answered by FLOP, a 4-letter entry. Used 15 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FLOP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLOP answer page.
Used 15 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for FLOP
Every other clue in this collection answered by FLOP, most used first.
- Dud - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Failure - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Broadway bomb - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Turkey - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
- Complete failure - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Bomb - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Lay an egg - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Total failure - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Box-office failure - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Producer's nightmare - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Broadway failure - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Big failure - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Hit's opposite - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Fiasco - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Office note - MEMO, used 169 times
- Theater box - LOGE, used 167 times
- Box - SPAR, used 94 times
- Tackle box item - LURE, used 93 times
- Time in office - TERM, used 88 times
- Remove from office - OUST, used 83 times
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