Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To cause to make a soft, sharp, metallic sound; clink.
- v. To shoot at casually.
- v. To make a soft, sharp, metallic sound.
- v. To shoot casually at random targets.
Wiktionary
- n. A short, high-pitched sound
- v. To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
Etymologies
- Imitative.
Examples
“This morning I schlepped my angst-filled self to the dentist prepared to hear I have another infection or something and as she was polishing up my temporary filling I hear a "plink" and felt something fly from my mouth!”
“If you have a noise, you might as well have a funny noise; not that you'll have to hold your sides when you behold "plink," but I think it's about 3 1/4 times funnier than "crash.”
“bitterness, anger, uptightness and my sphincters all relaxed and i breathed a bit better and i swear i heard the "plink" of a tiny bit of crustiness fall off our relationship so no more fighting at the sink.... and apologies to P...”
“It is really fun to plink and varmint hunt with those little bullets.”
Okay, I've heard nice things about all the rifles that I'm about to list.
“I consider .22 pretty useless as I seldom plink '.”
“Was looking for a rifle merely to plink and use up lots of 40 cal ammo that I have.”
“My SKS Carbine and .30 Carbine are both a blast to plink with.”
“Lots of wild game and we can hunt or just plink at tin cans.”
What was the hardest thing to give up when you moved to the US from Mexico?
“If you just want to plink then the crosman pumpmaster 760 should be fine it shoots 600 fps.”
“He taught himself to play the piano quite young, learning to plink out songs by ear.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plink’.
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like. (dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 86 more...
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Cartoonish
wham, eek, bang, kaboom, boohoo, kerpow, wallop, argh, ouch, yipes, *sigh*, aiee and 7 more...

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