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noun

Plunk n.

Act or sound of plunking. (Colloq.)

(Slang)

(a)

A large sum of money. (Obs.)

(b)

A dollar. (U. S.)

verb

Plunk v. t. (Chiefly Colloq.)

To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.

To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply, or suddenly; as, to plunk down a dollar; also, to hit or strike.

To be a truant from (school). (Scot.)

Plunk v. i. (Chiefly Colloq.)

To make a quick, hollow, metallic, or harsh sound, as by pulling hard on a taut string and quickly releasing it; of a raven, to croak.

To drop or sink down suddenly or heavily; to plump.

To play truant, or "hooky". (Scot.)

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Etymology of 'Plunk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plunk" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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, re, mi, Mi, ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various

... the open window by which they had gathered, like the midnight serenade of a romantic lover, sounded the well-known foghorn voice of T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., as to the plunkety-plunk of a banjo accompaniment, he ...

— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... ledges. Now we found the heretofore dry bed flowing a good eight inches deep. The steep slopes had become cascades; the ledges, waterfalls. When we came to them, we had to "shoot the rapids" as best we could, only to land with a PLUNK in an indeterminately deep pool at the bottom. Some of the pack horses went down, sousing again our unfortunate bedding, but by the grace of fortune not a saddle pony lost ...

— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White

... "and that's what troubles Strout. His friends will endorse his notes and take a mortgage on the store, for they know it's a good payin' business. They expect to get their money back with good interest, but it comes kinder hard on them to plunk down five hundred dollars ...

— Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life • Charles Felton Pidgin

... the air it grew chill as the Gryxabodill Raised his dank, dripping fins to the skies To plead with the Plunk for the use of her bill To pick the tears out of ...

— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells

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