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noun

Plop n. Act of plopping; the sound made in plopping.

verb

plop v. t.

To drop (something) so that it makes a plopping sound; especially, to drop with the sound of something falling into water.

To set down quickly, so as to make a sound; used often with the reflexive; as, He plopped himself into the sofa.

Synonyms: plank, flump, plonk, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump.

Plop v. i. (past & past part. plopped; pres. part. plopping)

To fall, drop, or move in any way, with a sudden splash or slap, as on the surface of water. "The body plopped up, turning on its side."

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Etymology of 'Plop'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plop" Quotes from Famous Books

... leaves and drank deeply of the beauties of nature. The soft rush of the river, the scent of the shrubs, the golden sunset, occasionally the musical clatter of hoofs on the road, the gentle noises of the fishers fishing, the plop, plop of a platypus disporting itself mid stream, came to me as sweetest elixir in my ideal, dream-of-a-poet nook among ...

— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... was once an old toad who lived under a tree, Hippety hop—Flippety flop, And his head was as bald as bald could be, He was deaf as a post and could hardly see, But a giddy and frivolous toad was he, With his hippety-hoppety-plop. ...

— The Wallypug in London • G. E. Farrow

... and his fingers were on the window-ledge. Robert never knew how the man had managed to climb up out of the water. But he saw the clinging fingers, and hit them as hard as he could with an iron bar that he caught up from the floor. The man fell with a plop-plash into the moat-water. In another moment Robert was outside the little room, had banged its door and was shooting home the enormous bolts, and calling to ...

— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit

... pole back quickly and the hook came out of the water. On it something wriggled. The thing fell plop into Hepzebiah's lap. She screamed while it flopped there. It was a little bigger than the Toyman's hand and round and flat and shiny red and gold. No, it was not a goldfish. ...

— Seven O'Clock Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson

... would not swop his little snuff box for Wells's seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty. It was a mean thing to do; all the fellows said it was. And how cold and slimy the water had been! And a fellow had once seen a big rat jump plop into ...

— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

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