Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Cheap or inferior wine.
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- interjection The sound made by something solid landing.
- interjection Internet The supposed sound of adding a user to one's
killfile . - noun countable The
sound of something solidlanding . - verb transitive To
set ortoss (something)down carelessly . - verb transitive, Internet, slang To
automatically ignore a particularposter ; tokillfile . - adverb followed by a location Precisely and forcefully.
- noun countable (
dated ,UK , law enforcement,slang ) 1970s UK police slang for afemale police constable . - noun uncountable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal
Cheap orinferior everyday wine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- noun a cheap wine of inferior quality
- noun the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Their wine might be as good as the lovely plonk from the Central Valley.
Rocks for shocks: geologists don’t “debunk” terroir; minerality questioned | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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Me and my fellow bloggers had some that we'd call plonk at best.
Mary Orlin: Virginia Is for Viognier Lovers (Not Earthquakes) Mary Orlin 2011
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Me and my fellow bloggers had some that we'd call plonk at best.
Mary Orlin: Virginia Is for Viognier Lovers (Not Earthquakes) Mary Orlin 2011
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Me and my fellow bloggers had some that we'd call plonk at best.
Mary Orlin: Virginia Is for Viognier Lovers (Not Earthquakes) Mary Orlin 2011
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The country is already renowned for its cheaper offerings, known as plonk; for the first time this year, a dry wine by Chile's Concha y Toro beat out Italy's syrupy Riunite as the top U.S. wine import.
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The source of the terrifying "plonk" is soon revealed as nothing worse than darts hitting a target.
Fresh Christmas Stories Meghan Cox Gurdon 2010
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(The slang is new to me, but nothing with "plonk" in it can be complimentary.)
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It was at the complete fall of darkness that the door slammed closed, and half a dozen shots rang out through the building, followed by the "plonk" of the bullets embedding themselves in the solid logs immediately behind where the rancher had been standing.
The Forfeit Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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VALUE: Nicely balanced, varietally correct > Well above the "plonk" level at a price that pretty much marks the bottom end for quality in today's market.
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About a month ago my G string started sounding more like 'plonk' than 'riiiinng'.
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