| Noun | 1. | plunk - a hollow twanging soundsound - the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them" | |
| 2. | plunk - (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenlyhitting, striking, hit - the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" baseball, baseball game, ball - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empy lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" | |
| Verb | 1. | plunk - make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the groundsound, go - make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" | |
| 2. | plunk - set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa" | |
| 3. | plunk - drop steeply; "the stock market plunged"power-dive - make a power dive; "The airplane power-dived" nosedive - plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft duck - submerge or plunge suddenly parachute, jump - jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute come down, descend, go down, fall - move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" dump, plunge - fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" | |
| 4. | plunk - pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"draw, pull, force - cause to move along the ground by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled" twang - pluck (strings of an instrument); "He twanged his bow" | |
| Adv. | 1. | plunk - with a short hollow thud; "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green"colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | |