plop
verbEtymology Imitative of the sound, or perhaps a variant of plap.
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To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
- Stooping, she picked up another pebble, sounded out the word again, and tossed it into the shallow water near the path, where it plopped into the water, sending out circles from where it fell.2012, Augusta Trobaugh, Music From Beyond The Moon, page 43:
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Ambitransitive To land heavily or loosely.
- He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.
- As the sun plops into the Pacific off Venice Beach, California, the four of us are sitting in a rented car at the corner of Rose and Main.1990 September, Dean Kuipers, “gonna Kick tomorrow”, in Bob Guccione, Jr., editor, Spin, volume 6, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Camouflage Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58, column 1:
2 more examples
- There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.2009, Reif Larson, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, page 37:
- The first time I had niku udon was at a Japanese convenience store, now long closed, near Columbia University in the mid-1990s. For about $5, the attendants would plop a handful of freshly boiled udon into a Styrofoam cup and add a ladle of dashi broth seasoned with soy sauce and mirin.2022 October 19, J. Kenji López-Alt, “What Kenji López-Alt Makes His Family for Dinner”, in The New York Times:
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UK To defecate.