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plunk

pləŋk
WordNet
  1. (adv) plunk
    with a short hollow thud "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green"
  2. (v) plunk
    pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
  3. (v) plunk
    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"
  4. (v) plunk
    drop steeply "the stock market plunged"
  5. (v) plunk
    make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
  6. (n) plunk
    (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly
  7. (n) plunk
    a hollow twanging sound
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Plunk
    A dollar.
  2. Plunk
    A large sum of money.
  3. Plunk
    Act or sound of plunking.
  4. Plunk
    To be a truant from (school).
  5. Plunk
    To drop or sink down suddenly or heavily; to plump.
  6. Plunk
    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.
  7. Plunk
    To play truant, or “hooky”.
  8. Plunk
    To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.
  9. Plunk
    To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply, or suddenly; as, to plunk down a dollar; also, to hit or strike.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. plunk
    To strike suddenly, with a dull sound; knock; bang: as, they plunked him with stones.
  2. plunk
    To knock (away); knock (from).
  3. plunk
    To shoot; fill full of ‘lead’ (missiles).
  4. plunk
    To pluck (a stringed instrument) so as to produce a low or deep sound; in general, twang.
  5. plunk
    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).
  6. plunk
    To croak or cry as a raven.
  7. plunk
    To plunge or drop down abruptly.
  8. (n) plunk
    A hard, dull blow: as, to hit one a plunk.
  9. (n) plunk
    A twang; a twanging sound: as, the plunk-plunk of the banjo.
  10. (n) plunk
    A dollar.
  11. plunk
    Suddenly; plump: as, he came plunk against the half-open door.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Imitative

Usage in the news

At Kiva's Web site (www.kiva.org), you can plunk down a loan of $25 to spot a farmer for pineapple seeds in Nicaragua, or help a fish seller buy cooking oil in Kenya. sfweekly.com

Does paying $20 to enter a South Beach club where you have the privilege of plunking down $9 per drink leave your bank account a bit barren. miaminewtimes.com

Big enough fans to plunk down the cash for his show at Wrigley Field a little over a year ago in August. 955glo.com

Your mom went to the store, bought a carton, and then plunked down a tall glass right next to your chocolate chip cookies. foxkansas.com

The quickest way to building a stellar sitting rep is to keep those kids entertained…without plunking 'em down in front of the tube. girlslife.com

Susie Mae (Stewart) Plunk , 89, of Rolla passed away Saturday, March 17, 2012. malvern-online.com

European telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson plunks down $2.1 billion to acquire Redback . eweek.com

America's spy services have just plunked down $58 million to make it real. ired.com

Up north this winter, some people are plunking down $1,500 to $4,000 for a snow bike. crainsdetroit.com

Investigators are looking into a report that a piece of uncooked poultry fell from the sky and plunked a teenager on the head. fls.com

Plunking of Holliday unintentional . sacbee.com

He learned how to plunk out Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" on an acoustic guitar. amny.com

If you've got $50,000 that you've been looking to unload on a new toy, you can plunk it down on a former drug mobile. keyj.com

Grimm plunked down $65 for the game, part of Waldameer Park & Water World's garage sale. goerie.com

Grimm plunked down $65 for the game, part of Waldameer Park & Water World's garage sale . goerie.com

Usage in scientific papers

The dissertation of Gabriel Galad Plunk is approved.
The theory of gyrokinetic turbulence: A multiple-scales approach

They also found velocityspace scalings in accord with Eq. (252) (using a spectral representation of the correlation functions in the v⊥ space based on the Hankel transform of the distribution function; see Plunk et al. 2009).
Astrophysical gyrokinetics: kinetic and fluid turbulent cascades in magnetized weakly collisional plasmas

Plunk for discussions of the theory of gyrokinetic turbulence in two spatial dimensions.
Astrophysical gyrokinetics: kinetic and fluid turbulent cascades in magnetized weakly collisional plasmas

The complete derivation and analysis of 2D conservation properties of gyrokinetics in the electrostatic limit, including the invariant (F10), the electrostatic version of Eq. (F1), and their consequences for scalings and cascades, was given by Plunk et al. (2009).
Astrophysical gyrokinetics: kinetic and fluid turbulent cascades in magnetized weakly collisional plasmas

Other invariants introduced above can in a similar fashion be argued to give rise to inverse cascades in the hypothetical 2D situations where they are valid and provided there is energy injection at small scales (for the electrostatic case, see Plunk et al. 2009 and numerical simulations by Tatsuno et al. 2009b).
Astrophysical gyrokinetics: kinetic and fluid turbulent cascades in magnetized weakly collisional plasmas

Usage in literature

Actually thinks more about an old rascal of a Simian than a handful of plunks. "Chums of the Camp Fire" by Lawrence J. Leslie

And I knew Merriwell must be stuck on the horse for which he paid a thousand plunks. "Frank Merriwell's Races" by Burt L. Standish

There was two plunks to the employment man; they got half. "The Trail of '98" by Robert W. Service

His feet went up into the air and he came down ker-plunk! "The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service" by James R. Driscoll

I was watching the for'ard half of her as it went pitching up, the bowsprit making a quarter circle in the air, and then plunk! "Sonnie-Boy's People" by James B. Connolly

Just as we hit the sidewalk we hears a front window go up, and down comes a red rose plunk in front of us. "Shorty McCabe" by Sewell Ford

Ain't plunked bad, is he? "Bloom of Cactus" by Robert Ames Bennet

Carlisle'd hand him out a plunk, a case, a buck. "Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War" by Finley Peter Dunne

And when I told 'em about Pete being kept in, they both looks awful solemn and plunks down on the steps to wait for him. "William Adolphus Turnpike" by William Banks

When the policeman waving his note-book approached the car, it plunked for Tabs. "The Kingdom Round the Corner" by Coningsby Dawson

Usage in poetry
A mighty Wall Street banker
With a whopping lot of power
And an income of somewhere around
A thousand plunks per hour;
But when he looked so pleased, alack!
She unhooked and plunked him back.--
"I never like to catch what I can,"
Said Miss Medairy Dory-Ann.
I'd like to see the Rocks an' Little Lon
Grow centres for the art uv weavin' rhyme,
Wiv dinky 'arps fer blokes to plunk upon,
An' spruiking poits workin' overtime.
Whatcha gonna do when Memphis falls down,
Memphis falls down, Mistah Music Man?
Gonna plunk on dat box as long as it soun'
Gonna plunk dat box fo' to beat de ban',
Gonna tickle dem ivories, oh, my Lawd!
An' then there come the bay'nit charge.
The blokes to left an' right
They all was cursin' fine and large,
But I keep mum, an' fight.
I plunks a square-'ead in the wind -
"Annoying fellow; there!" I grinned.
'Ere's joy!...Wot was I sayin'? Oh!
Them Germans allush funk
The bay'nit. Take my tip, an' go
Fair for their stummicks - plunk!
Jist stick 'em in the - 'Ere, Miss, 'ere!
Give 'im the soft one! Mine's the beer.