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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  • “Bring her around.” I watched as the bullets followed us, plink-plink-plink. —  Rouge Warrior - Richard Marcinko
  • 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 only sound besides our quiet breathing was the soft plink, plink as the tiny fragments of glass dropped one by one to the table. —  Meyer, Stephenie - New Moon
  • "It was like, one day he couldn't play the piano-you know, he could plink on it like I do-and the next day he could sit down and play you a whole complicated melody line of blues or a jazz or a rock & roll influenced melody line," Jakobson says, amazed. —  Expecting Rain
  • Whether you're looking for a. 50-caliber sniper rifle that will take a human target out at almost a mile or a .22 to plink cans, it's here in the cavernous halls of the Orange County Convention Center. —  Business - BostonHerald.com
 

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