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Plop

noun

The noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash.

verb

(past & past part. plopped; pres. part. plopping)

Drop something with a plopping sound.

Drop with the sound of something falling into water.

Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise. Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down. "He planked himself into the sofa"

adverb

With a short hollow thud. Synonym: plunk.

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"Plop" Quotes from Famous Books

... along through the bushes, while the clatter of the rifles grew nearer, and presently there was a flick— like a frog diving into mud—close by her feet, and she knew there were bullets coming her way. Flick-plop! It came again ...

— Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases - Seventeen Short Stories • Perceval Gibbon

... mother of my heart. I'm going to say thank-prayers now, for you, for him, for the whole beautifulness of the world. My windows are wide open on to the Haff. There's no sound at all, except that little plop, plop, of the water against the terrace wall. Sometimes a bird flutters for a moment in the trees of the forest on either side of the garden, turning over in its sleep, I suppose, and then everything is still again, so still; ...

— Christine • Alice Cholmondeley

... never forgave the scratch on his nose, nor yet Mrs Puss's boast that he was afraid of her; so he walked softly along the wall, and on to the tool-shed, and with one bouncing leap came down plop upon the ...

— Featherland - How the Birds lived at Greenlawn • George Manville Fenn

... the shovel, hesitated, and then in a movement which was like a gesture of abhorrence he flung the dirt into the grave, and as it landed it made a sound—plop! Lean suddenly stopped and mopped his ...

— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane

... was a real pump with real water and a sucker in good standing, warranted to need no priming. At the stroke of the red handle the good, cool water gurgled and arose with a delightful "plop!" It splashed from the spout freely upon the face and hands of the victim of the long hill—delicious, life-giving! The delight it brought seemed compensation almost for heat and pain and weariness. Callandar felt that if he could only let its sweetness stream indefinitely ...

— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

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