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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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... that tree until we got down into town. Even then it was easy for a little distance on account of Central Avenue running east and west. We had good luck because our hike straight west down the hill took us right plunk into Central Avenue. ...

— Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... sprung forward over the ground. It would not have surprised Rosalie, who was then about four, to see one of these stupendous leaps continue in a whirling flight through mid-air and her father come hurtling over the gate and drop with an enormous plunk at her feet like a huge dead bird, as a partridge once had come plunk over the hedge and out of the sky when she was in a lane adjacent to a shooting party. It would not have surprised her in the least. Nothing her father did ever surprised Rosalie. The world was his and the fulness ...

— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson

... don't even hesitate. He leaps at that there rail fence an' lands against it with his head, plunk—an' caroms back into th' road. He leaps again, an' comes back th' same way, but at th' third jump he goes through a wider place in th' rails, an' lands on th' other side o' the fence, on that there same head. Then he scrambles to his feet, an' ...

— Injun and Whitey to the Rescue • William S. Hart

... fright over the roaring, bristling beast—for horses seem to dread a bear more than any other animal. If the bear cannot reach cover, however, his fate is sealed. Sooner or later, the noose tightens over one leg, or perchance over the neck and fore-paw, and as the rope straightens with a "plunk," the horse braces itself desperately and the bear tumbles over. Whether he regains his feet or not the cowboy keeps the rope taut; soon another noose tightens over a leg, and the ...

— Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches • Theodore Roosevelt

... style of broadside that generally sunk her adversary, but the balls rolled off the low flat deck and fell with a solemn plunk in the moaning sea, or broke in fragments and lay on the forward deck like the shells of antique eggs on the floor of the House of Parliament ...

— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye

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