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noun

Plunk n.

Act or sound of plunking. (Colloq.)

(Slang)

(a)

A large sum of money. (Obs.)

(b)

A dollar. (U. S.)

verb

Plunk v. t. (Chiefly Colloq.)

To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.

To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply, or suddenly; as, to plunk down a dollar; also, to hit or strike.

To be a truant from (school). (Scot.)

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". (Scot.)

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Etymology of 'Plunk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plunk" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ker-plunk! Missiles were flying through the air and the rah-rahs were stopping a good many of them ...

— The High School Boys' Training Hike • H. Irving Hancock

... a river—blue and flat like the sky above—running through rushy banks, backed by the masses of the forest; anon the waters rushed upon us over the rocks, and we fought, plunk-plunk-plunk, with the paddles, until our strength gave out. We stepped out into the water, and getting our lines, and using our long double blades as fenders, "tracked" the canoes up through the boil. The Indians in their heavier boats used "setting-poles" ...

— Crooked Trails • Frederic Remington

... Plunk! the ball struck in Ready's hand. Thud! it dropped to the ground. But the bases were filled, and the batter was out, for all that Jack had not held the ball. He recovered it so that there was no possibility for the man on third ...

— Frank Merriwell's Reward • Burt L. Standish

... ocean red,"—or, for more pertinent instances, imagine a Carlyle, an Emerson, a Lamb forced to exclude from his vocabulary every word not readily understood by the multitude, to iron out all whimseys, all melodies from his phrasing, and to plunk down his words one after the other in ...

— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

... fire going in one igloo and dried our mittens and kamiks. Though the tumpa, tumpa, plunk of the banjo was not heard, and our camp-fires were not scenes of revelry and joy, I frequently did the double-shuffle and an Old Virginia break-down, to keep ...

— A Negro Explorer at the North Pole • Matthew A. Henson

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