🪵 A long board 📋 A main principle 💥 To drop heavily 🪵 To cover with boards 🤸 To lie stiffly 🍽️ To cook on wood

to plank

1 7.2

To drop something or yourself down heavily, often making a noise

verb
/plæŋk/

: dejarse caer

After a long hike, she planked herself down on the bench and sighed with relief.

Examples

So we can get down, you plank, not so you can get up.

Doghouse (2009)
The boy began to speak out of boredom and recollected the high school girls he'd undressed and fondled and sometimes planked, and then he communicated to Bob a recent revelation:

Fiction book (1996)
He planked down onto the soft grass, enjoying the warm sunshine above.
The child planked himself down on the floor with a thud, ready to play.

Synonyms

to plop

vsto plank

35 3.6

To sit or place something down suddenly with a soft sound

is heavier and more abrupt, usually producing a louder noise

to plunk

vsto plank

14 6.0

To put down something or sit down heavily so it makes a loud sound

is similarly heavy and abrupt, matching that forceful noisy sense

to plunk down

vsto plank

Informal

5 6.7

To put something down so it makes a noise or to pay money quickly

is heavy and abrupt and often noisy rather than gentle

to plonk

vsto plank

2 7.8

To put something down heavily and loudly

is heavy and abrupt but focuses more on impact than carelessness

to plump

vsto plank

2 4.1

To sit or drop down heavily and suddenly

is focused on abrupt heavy action rather than just suddenness

flop

vsto plank

1 4.6

In a sudden heavy way that often makes a soft sound

is similarly heavy but more abrupt and often louder in effect

to plonk down

vsto plank

1 7.6

Sit or put something down heavily and carelessly

is about heavy abrupt placement generally, not only sitting down

to flump

vsto plank

Informal

1 8.8

To fall or put something down heavily so it makes a dull sound

is heavy and abrupt but tends to be louder rather than dull

to plump down

vsto plank

1 7.2

To put something or yourself down suddenly and heavily, often making a noise

is more about abrupt heavy placement and frequent noisiness

to plank down

vsto plank

1 8.0

To put something down hard, often making a loud sound

is heavy and abrupt but not necessarily careless in attitude

Antonyms

to set down

95 1.7

To put something or someone down gently on a surface

Phrasal Verbs

to plank down

1 8.0

To put something down hard, often making a loud sound

to plank over

6.5

To cover a surface with wooden boards

Compounds

plank-bed

Archaic

1 9.1

A simple bed made of wooden boards with no mattress

garboard plank

Specialized

1 9.9

A piece of wood placed next to the keel on each side of a wooden ship's hull

How Heavily

flop

17 3.5

to plank

1 7.2

to drop

∞ 1.0

to put down

∞ 1.0

to set down

95 1.7

to place

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

plank infinitive

planked past

planked past participle

planking present participle

planks third person singular

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the verb plank meaning to drop down heavily is to think of a person falling like a heavy board — you 'plank' yourself down with a solid thud, like a plank hitting the floor.