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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



... 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



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



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