Plunk

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  • intransitive verb. To throw or place heavily or abruptly.
  • intransitive verb. To strum or pluck (a stringed instrument).
  • intransitive verb. To drop or fall abruptly or heavily; plump.
  • intransitive verb. To emit a hollow twanging sound.
  • noun. A heavy blow or stroke.
  • noun. A short hollow twanging sound.
  • adverb. With a short hollow thud.
  • adverb. Exactly; precisely.
  • 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.
  • Suddenly; plump: as, he came plunk against the half-open door.
  • noun. A hard, dull blow: as, to hit one a plunk.
  • noun. A twang; a twanging sound: as, the plunk-plunk of the banjo.
  • noun. A dollar.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.
  • transitive verb. To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply, or suddenly; ; also, to hit or strike.
  • transitive verb. To be a truant from (school).
  • intransitive verb. 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.
  • intransitive verb. To drop or sink down suddenly or heavily; to plump.
  • intransitive verb. To play truant, or “hooky”.
  • noun. Act or sound of plunking.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A large sum of money.
  • noun. A dollar.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To drop or throw heavily (onto or into something) so that it makes a sound
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
  • noun. a hollow twanging sound
  • verb. drop steeply
  • adverb. with a short hollow thud
  • noun. (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly
  • verb. pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
  • verb. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
  • Word Usage
    "And cash it was made, thirty plunks (a plunk is a dollar, my dear Anak), and"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    go  hit  hitting  place down  put down  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Funk  Monk  blunk  bunk  chunk  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abruptly  bang  bash  bat  beating  
    verb-form
    plunked  plunking  plunks