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How to pronounce plop in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms flump, plank, plonk, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down
Type of set down, place down, put down
Type Words
Synonyms plunk


plop came the ball down to the corner of the green.
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Type of drop
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Type of fall, go down, come down, descend
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Type of noise

Examples of plop

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Most folks plop these bottles in the refrigerator and serve directly from there.
From the newsobserver.com
There were couches strewn everywhere and just as many places to plop as to type.
From the freep.com
Plop over and follow those accounts and I'll spit out the codes at random times.
From the techcrunch.com
Plop the whole wedge in so that the aromatic oils of the zest perfume your soup.
From the sfgate.com
Congratulate the victors, admit his players were plop and apologise to the fans.
From the guardian.co.uk
Leather chairs in rich colors like Elephant and Honey are comfy places to plop.
From the thestate.com
In some of us, the tendency is really strong, and we plop over in a dead faint.
From the dallasnews.com
The red sensed the plop, saw the fly and rushed with stiff fins and open mouth.
From the chron.com
A plop is defined as a little more than a tablespoon, a drizzle as two wet plops.
From the heraldtribune.com
More examples
  • Drop something with a plopping sound
  • The noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash
  • With a short hollow thud; "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green"
  • Drop with the sound of something falling into water
  • Plank: 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"
  • PLate OPtimizer, or PLOP is a CAD program used by amateur telescope makers to design primary mirror support cells for reflecting telescopes. It was developed by telescope maker David Lewis, first described in 1999, and used to simplify calculations needed in the design of mirror support cells. ...
  • Pattern Languages of Programs is the name of a group of annual conferences. The purpose of these conferences is to develop and refine the art of software design patterns. ...
  • Plop!, "The New Magazine of Weird Humor!", was a comic book anthology published by DC Comics in the mid 1970s. It falls into the horror / humor genre. There were 24 issues in all and the series ran from Sept./Oct. 1973 to Nov./Dec. 1976.
  • The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark is a children's book by Jill Tomlinson, of which there is also an audio version read by Maureen Lipman for those unable to read at the current stage in their life. It was first published in 1968, with a 2001 edition illustrated by Paul Howard.