| plunk | | |
| n. (event) | 1. plunk | a hollow twanging sound. |
| ~ sound | the sudden occurrence of an audible event.; "the sound awakened them" |
| n. (act) | 2. plunk, plunker | (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly. |
| ~ hitting, hit, striking | the act of contacting one thing with another.; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| v. (perception) | 3. clop, clump, clunk, plunk | make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground. |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (contact) | 4. flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down | set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise.; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa" |
| ~ place down, put down, set down | cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place.; "set down your bags here" |
| v. (motion) | 5. dive, plunge, plunk | drop steeply.; "the stock market plunged" |
| ~ power-dive | make a power dive.; "The airplane power-dived" |
| ~ nosedive | plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft. |
| ~ duck | submerge or plunge suddenly. |
| ~ crash-dive | descend steeply and rapidly. |
| ~ chute, parachute, jump | jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute. |
| ~ come down, descend, go down, fall | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
| ~ dump, plunge | fall abruptly.; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" |
| v. (contact) | 6. pick, pluck, plunk | pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion.; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin" |
| ~ draw, pull, force | cause to move by pulling.; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled" |
| ~ twang | pluck (strings of an instrument).; "He twanged his bow" |
| adv. | 7. plop, plunk | with a short hollow thud.; "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
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