Plunk

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To throw or place heavily or abruptly: plunked the money down on the counter.
  • v. To strum or pluck (a stringed instrument).
  • verb-intransitive. To drop or fall abruptly or heavily; plump: plunked onto the couch with a sigh of relief.
  • verb-intransitive. To emit a hollow twanging sound.
  • n. Informal A heavy blow or stroke.
  • n. A short hollow twanging sound.
  • ad. Informal With a short hollow thud.
  • ad. Informal Exactly; precisely: The dart landed plunk in the center of the target.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To drop or throw heavily (onto or into something) so that it makes a sound
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.
  • v. To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply, or suddenly; ; also, to hit or strike.
  • v. To be a truant from (school).
  • verb-intransitive. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To drop or sink down suddenly or heavily; to plump.
  • verb-intransitive. To play truant, or “hooky”.
  • n. Act or sound of plunking.
  • n.
  • n. A large sum of money.
  • n. A dollar.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To strike suddenly, with a dull sound; knock; bang: as, they plunked him with stones.
  • To knock (away); knock (from).
  • To shoot; fill full of ‘lead’ (missiles).
  • To pluck (a stringed instrument) so as to produce a low or deep sound; in general, twang.
  • To make or emit an abrupt and usually heavy sound: especially used of the rough sounding of a stringed instrument, and sometimes strung out with arbitrary variations (as in the quotation).
  • To croak or cry as a raven.
  • To plunge or drop down abruptly.
  • n. A hard, dull blow: as, to hit one a plunk.
  • n. A twang; a twanging sound: as, the plunk-plunk of the banjo.
  • n. A dollar.
  • Suddenly; plump: as, he came plunk against the half-open door.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
  • n. a hollow twanging sound
  • v. drop steeply
  • ad. with a short hollow thud
  • n. (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly
  • v. pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
  • v. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
  • Verb Form
    plunked    plunking    plunks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sound    go    striking    hitting    hit    setdown    put down    place down   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    twang    plump    dollar    flump    thud   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Funk    Monk    blunk    bunk    chunk    clunk    crunk    debunk    drunk    dunk   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts