plunk

• Something went ker-plunk in my chest as I read a page and a half of what was in Shay's Meadow at the time, and what had happened there later that summer in 1944 I went back to the newspaper office and puttered through the rest of the day, trying hard to be relaxed. —  EQMM, Sep - Oct 2006
• And cash it was made, thirty PLUNKS (a plunk is a dollar, my dear Anak), and I pulled my freight. —  Word of the Day
• The four-legged power droid is called a plunk droid, and sure enough, that's what it says as it shuffles about.
• I could hear it plunk, plunk, like someone was using a chisel or crowbar, soft and easy, like he didn't want to be heard. —  The Man Next Door
• It will do you good to watch how the overripe orders just drop, ker-plunk, into my lap Maybe you know Sulzberg & Stein's big store? —  Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day

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