plink
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- transitive verb To cause to make a soft, sharp, metallic sound; clink.
- transitive verb To shoot at casually.
- intransitive verb To make a soft, sharp, metallic sound.
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- I knew she was in despair over our shortage of food that day, and she was short-tempered. — Mao's last dancer
- She heard a tinny sound from the street, the plink-plink tones of an ice cream truck, although the ditty faded so quickly that she wondered if she had imagined it. — Every Secret Thing
- She leaned forward from the waist, so she was eye level with the wire baskets of bagels, and hit the glass with her index finger the way a kid plink-plink-pl inks the same key on a piano. — Every Secret Thing
- I watched as the bullets followed us, plink-plink-plink. — Rogue Warrior
- Shit, it was safer to bodysurf through an ambush than give the enemy a slow-moving target to plink at. — Rogue Warrior
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- Imitative.
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