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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

... say if we sell the old farm anyway, and then if this mine business don't look good, we'll plunk it ...

— The Homesteaders - A Novel of the Canadian West • Robert J. C. Stead

... swallowed twice, and got up so abruptly that Lovin Child sat down again with a plunk. Cash muttered something in his throat and rushed out into the wind and the slow-falling tiny white ...

— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower

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