plonk

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People killthread, plonk people, and develop other ways to ignore discussions.

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Quick take

a cheap wine of inferior quality

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of plonk gathered in one view.

noun

a cheap wine of inferior quality

noun

the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)

verb

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for plonk.

noun

a cheap wine of inferior quality

noun

the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)

verb

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"

See also: plank, flump, plop, plunk, plump

Example sentences

People killthread, plonk people, and develop other ways to ignore discussions.

That said, I am not looking forward to comments that consist of nothing more than "blocked" "added to killfile" "plonk" etc.

That was actually remarkably difficult at first; my hands were literally shaking as I tried to plonk out a song.

Or maybe Google is going to buy more little ships and plonk one of these in each?I hope that they have adequate security, because all that gold and copper is worth stealing for some people.

Fascinating... I knew * plonk * made a sound, but by 1994 I had always heard it retronymmed to "put loser on newsgroup killfile", which wasn't quite satisfying - Why the awkward phrasing?Now I know the truth.

The problem with CMSes that have "all the features you want" is that they have so many features that the average user who just needs to plonk some content down on a page and periodically edit it can't wade through all the features to figure out how to do that.