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English

1. a common term in a sports where a player has faked a fall on the ground in order to get the chance of penalty, known as 'diving' in football or 'flop' in basketball
2. to dive into water from the springboard
3. to worsen rapidly; usually refers to figures (e.g. stock price, business performance) in a free fall
4. to dive to the ground and feign an injury, in order to mislead the referee into thinking that the other team has committed a foul in a ball game; also refers to the act of gaining (unfair) advantage by playing the victim card

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 由高處一躍而下，垂直跳入水中；多指跳水運動員嘅動作
2. 情況急轉直下；多指數據（例如股價、業績）急跌
3. 假摔；不犯自倒；原指喺球類運動裏面，球員假扮俾對手侵犯而故意自行跌低，嘗試瞞騙球證，搏取有利自己隊嘅判決；引申指假扮被害以搏取利益

Examples

• 好玩唔玩，學人玩插水，好危險㗎！隨時插到池底整傷自己㗎！

  There are lots of other things you could do other than diving from the springboard! It's dangerous! You could have plunged all the way to the pool bed and hurt yourself. ----

• 你扮夠未呀？都冇人掂過你，你唔好自己仆街插水搏同情先得㗎？

  Are you done with your acting yet? No one touched you at all. How could you dive to the ground yourself and pretend to be the victim?

• 又話中國政府今朝會入股救市嘅？我隻9413今日由兩蚊一下插水插到落五毫呀陰功！

  Didn't they say China would support the stock market? My 9413 shares dropped from $2 to $0.5 today! ----