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plunk

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n. a hollow twanging sound (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly [syn: plunker ] adv. with a short hollow thud; "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green" [syn: plop ] v. make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plunk \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''. ...

Usage examples of plunk.

Grace said, her gaze moving over Michelle as she leaned heavily against the bar, plunking her oversprayed head right on top of it and closing her eyes.

I finished off the tea, slipped into ratty tennis shoes, and plunked a tattered gardening hat on my head.

Nicholas complained and cursed, but he unwrapped his smelly, dirty son and plunked him into the warm water.

My first twenty- three years ill- prepared me to be plunked down as a World War II infantryman for three and one- half years-- in the dank jungles of the Solomon Islands, in the lethal streets and buildings of Manila and on the frightening, winding mountain roads leading up to Baguio in the Philippines.

In the knock of axes, the plunking of a banjo being tuned, the smell of corn mush and fatback frying, it was not hard to pretend they were all young fellows and good friends assembling for a camp meeting or coon hunt.

Its motor whirred softly, and ice cubes plunked down from the icemaker into the bin.

The moment the corvus plunked down on the deck of an enemy ship, the hook married it to the enemy ship and let Roman troops pour aboard.

When the arrangements were complete and the Boeing 727 was within a few miles of the field, Tony DiStefano plunked himself in a chair to listen to the background briefings.

The young man plunked his hat onto a rack beside the door and buffed his crewcut with his pink fingers.

Jake as much as gave it to them when he plunked it down on Assemblywoman Miller's desk.

How could an axe murderer very calmly sit down and plunk out a letter on a typewriter?

The wineglass plunked into the water and sank, unbroken and dancing, like a ballet slipper, to the bottom of the deep end of the pool.

If not for Simon's position, she'd have plunked Yalena down on the farm already, come hell or high water.

These words open a journal I started to write, early in my rejuvenation, to keep my thoughts straight in the face of the culture shock I felt in being lifted bodily out of the Crazy Years of Tellus Prime - and plunked down in the almost Apollonian culture of Tellus Tertius.

She picked up the big doubling cube from her side of the board and plunked it down on his side.