plink

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The escalating plink-plink-plink as you clock up pegs is shamelessly uplifting, and for every shot that goes just wide of the mark there's one that somehow bounces its way to some seemingly impossible orange pegs before landing safely in the bucket.

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  1. transitive verb To cause to make a soft, sharp, metallic sound; clink.
  2. transitive verb To shoot at casually.
  3. intransitive verb To make a soft, sharp, metallic sound.

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  • Sirna listened to the names of a number of gods being taken in vain in the next room, the thump of a rug being rolled up, the clatter of a bucket being set down, and the steady plink-plink-plink of the leak dripping into it. —  Carr, John F, Kalvan Kingmaker (v1.0) (html).html
  • The escalating plink-plink-plink as you clock up pegs is shamelessly uplifting, and for every shot that goes just wide of the mark there's one that somehow bounces its way to some seemingly impossible orange pegs before landing safely in the bucket. —  Eurogamer
  • Of course, if I were the heroine of a really nice melodrama, in such a scene as Dick and I went through, I should have been accompanied by slow music, with lime-light every time I turned my head, which would have heartened me up very much; while Dick would have had villain music--plink, plink, plunk! —  Set in Silver
  • Of course, if I were the heroine of a really nice melodrama, in such a scene as Dick and I went through, I should have been accompanied by slow music, with lime-light every time I turned my head, which would have heartened me up very much; while Dick would have had villain music -- plink, plink, plunk! —  Set in Silver
  • We just used the default parameter setting to output the posterior probabilities of each genotype and the command was: plink -- bfile filename -- all -- proxy-impute all -- proxy-verbose -- make-bed -- out outname —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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