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Plunk   /pləŋk/   Listen
Plunk

verb
1.
Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground.  Synonyms: clop, clump, clunk.
2.
Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise.  Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk down.  "He planked himself into the sofa"
3.
Drop steeply.  Synonyms: dive, plunge.
4.
Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion.  Synonyms: pick, pluck.



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"Plunk" Quotes from Famous Books



... it," said the mate. "A fine place to be high and dry and a U-boat come along in the morning and plunk us another few shells between our livers and lights. I'm tired of ...
— The U-boat hunters • James B. Connolly

... swallowed twice, and got up so abruptly that Lovin Child sat down again with a plunk. Cash muttered something in his throat and rushed out into the wind and the slow-falling tiny white flakes ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower

... that mansion used to be Free-hearted hospitality; But that was many years before Jemima monkeyed with the score. When she began her daily plunk, Into their graves the neighbors sunk. Do, ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various



Words linked to "Plunk" :   jump, twang, power-dive, place down, go down, dump, nosedive, put down, duck, baseball, sound, draw, colloquialism, hit, pull, come down, parachute, striking, fall, go, baseball game, descend, crash-dive, chute, hitting, set down, force



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