to plop
5
3.4
- verb
- /plɑp/
:
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- She carefully plopped her keys into the bowl by the door with a soft sound.
- plop into the water
- raindrops plop
- drops plop
Examples
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Halfway to Paramount, a fat raindrop plops like a rotten berry on the windshield.
Academic text (2007) -
You get up in the morning... ...roll out of bed, plop, in the pool.
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I reach inside my mouth, pull out my partial, and plop it on the table.
Fiction book (1991) -
I heard her sit down on the bed, and I heard the sound of her shoes plopping on the floor.
Fiction book (2002) -
I can hear it plopping into the water, and wonder what takes Katukov so long.
Fiction book (1991) -
Wade, alone in darkness, plops into the water and paddles to shore.
Fiction book (1997) -
Suddenly, a two-inch-thick manila envelope plops down beside him.
Fiction book (1993) -
Bradley tosses another shell into the water, and it plops resoundingly.
Fiction book (2000) -
He watched the stone plop into the pond, sending ripples across the water.
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As the rain began to fall, droplets plopped onto the ground, creating small splashes.
Synonyms
91
1.0
To make liquid move so it hits things and makes noise
12
6.0
To put down something or sit down heavily so it makes a loud sound
1
6.7
To make a short, soft popping sound in a liquid
1
4.1
To sit or drop down heavily and suddenly
To fall with a quiet sound onto a soft surface
To make a light smacking or soft splashing sound
To move through water and make a loud wet sound
To fall or put something down heavily so it makes a dull sound
How Loud
Surface Forms
Etymology
Plop began as an imitation of the noise of a small thing falling into water, a close cousin of the word plunk. So to plop something is to drop it into liquid and make that soft, splash-like sound.