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to plink

to plink

1 9.3
To shoot small targets like cans for fun
  • verb
  • /plɪŋk/
  • Jargon
translation icon : disparar
  • He spent the afternoon plinking at empty soda bottles with his .22 caliber rifle.

Examples

  • Oh, he would sometimes take the spetsdods out on a free day to plink at old drink containers, trying to keep skills that had once been razor-edged from rusting completely.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Who would walk the shoreline or sit out there in a boat and plink at it?

    Fiction book (1990)

  • It's much healthier for a kid to spend a day plinking at cans than an hour playing a violent video game in a gun-free house.

    Blog text (30)

  • My eyes drifted to the lumpy black weapon strapped to his left side, not much bigger than the 5mm slugkicker pistol I used to plink targets with when I was a kid.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • On weekends, I enjoy going to the shooting range to plink at various targets.

  • After setting up the cans in the backyard, we started to plink at them with our air rifles.

How Casual

to plink
  • Jargon
1 9.3
to shoot
  • NSFW
∞ 1.8
to fire
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

plink infinitive
plinked past
plinked past participle
plinking present participle
plinks third person singular

Etymology

Plink for casual shooting comes from the same sound idea: when pellets or bullets hit tin cans they make a 'plink', and people named the relaxed target shooting after that sound. So to plink is to shoot at small targets for fun.