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

to plank

1 7.2
To drop something or yourself down heavily, often making a noise
  • verb
  • /plæŋk/
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  • 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 plunk
vsto plank
12 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 plop
vsto plank
12 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 down
vsto plank
  • Informal
6 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
  • UK
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
1 4.1

To sit or drop down heavily and suddenly

is focused on abrupt heavy action rather than just suddenness
to plonk down
vsto plank
  • UK
1 7.6

Sit or put something down heavily and carelessly

is about heavy abrupt placement generally, not only sitting down
to plank down
vsto plank
8.0

To put something down hard, often making a loud sound

is heavy and abrupt but not necessarily careless in attitude
to plump down
vsto plank
  • UK
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 flump
vsto plank
  • Informal
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
flop
vsto plank
4.6

In a sudden heavy way that often makes a soft sound

is similarly heavy but more abrupt and often louder in effect

Antonyms

to set down
70 1.7

To put something or someone down gently on a surface

Phrasal Verbs

to plank down
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

garboard plank
  • Specialized
9.9

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

plank-bed
  • Archaic
9.1

A simple bed made of wooden boards with no mattress

How Heavily

flop
28 3.5
to plank
1 7.2
to drop
∞ 1.0
to put down
812 1.0
to set down
70 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.