plunk has definitions from the fields of baseball,sport
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[ verb ] make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

Synonyms

clump clunk clop

Used in print

(Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)

Plunking themselves down on the front bench , they turned to smirk at those around them .

Related terms

go

2
[ verb ] set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise

Examples

"He planked the money on the table" "He planked himself into the sofa"

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between , on_the_one_hand , her arranging the ventilation of the common living_room to her own liking , or turning the television off or on without regard_to the wishes of the others , and on_the_other_hand , my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections , bringing my big easy_chair with me , usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state , and plunking myself down in my chair - in_short , behaving as if I owned her room .

Related terms

set_down plonk

3
[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 11650
4
[ verb ] drop steeply

Synonyms

plunge dive

Examples

"the stock market plunged"

5
[ noun ] a hollow twanging sound

Related terms

sound clop

6
[ adverb ] (informal) with a short hollow thud

Synonyms

plop

Examples

"plop came the ball down to the corner of the green"

Related terms

colloquialism

7
[ verb ] pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion, as of guitar strings

Synonyms

pick pluck

Examples

"he plucked the strings of his mandolin"

Related terms

pull twang pick

8
[ noun ] (baseball,sport) the act of hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly

Synonyms

plunker

Related terms

hit baseball baseball

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