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Plunk

verb

Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground. Synonyms: clop, clump, clunk.

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"

Drop steeply. Synonyms: dive, plunge.

Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion. Synonyms: pick, pluck.

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"Plunk" Quotes from Famous Books

... Barrel Alley, watching the mud along the edge of the sidewalk, so I could tell if the fellow left the sidewalk to go into one of the houses. Barrel Alley is a blind alley-that means it has an end to it and you can't go any further. It runs plunk into the end of Shad Row. Norris Row is the right name, but old man Norris is named Shadley Norris, so us fellows call it Shad Row. You can get through the end of Barrel Alley if you climb over old man Norris back fence, so it isn't exactly a blind alley. ...

— Roy Blakeley • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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