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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
plunk .
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Examples
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They had one mind, one ambition, and they had agreed, mutually, to salt down a few "plunks" each payday for their anticipated gray days.
Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope
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One day a company came along, attracted by the noise that had been made, and bonded the claims for a few hundred "plunks" down and the balance of one hundred thousand dollars in three months if they decided to take the claims over.
Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope
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To Spike a diamond brooch of cunning workmanship was merely the equivalent of so many "plunks".
The Gem Collector 1928
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Spike, a diamond necklace of cunning workmanship was merely the equivalent of so many "plunks"; but he knew that there were men, otherwise sane, who valued a jewel for its own sake.
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"Take your stakes down, Captain Anson, and take fifty 'plunks' of mine."
A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson Adrian Constantine Anson 1887
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What he did not tell his students was that they are unaswerable because it was never a matter of Either/Or, but both. so tell me Atheist What 'plunks' the strings on the Instrument, and what is the
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Troy Jollimore, Truthdig 2009
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What he did not tell his students was that they are unaswerable because it was never a matter of Either/Or, but both. so tell me Atheist What 'plunks' the strings on the Instrument, and what is the
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And she plunks herself down in one of the armchairs Open country.
Robert Brustein: Sarah in Blunderland or the Mad Hater's Tea Party Robert Brustein 2011
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And she plunks herself down in one of the armchairs Open country.
Robert Brustein: Sarah in Blunderland or the Mad Hater's Tea Party Robert Brustein 2011
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Almost instantly, a warm wheat roll plunks into the bin below.
Fresh Test: Grocery Store Automats Get a Rise Out of German Bakers Vanessa Fuhrmans 2010
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