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Plump for   /pləmp fɔr/   Listen
Plump for

verb
1.
Be behind; approve of.  Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse, plunk for, support.  "I backed Kennedy in 1960"






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"Plump for" Quotes from Famous Books



... Eyrie's son, a Whig and a friend of Popery, Arthur Pendennis, with an immense bow for himself, which his mother made, and with a blue ribbon for Rebecca, rode alongside of the Reverend Doctor Portman, on his grey mare Dowdy, and at the head of the Clavering voters, whom the Doctor brought up to plump for ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray



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