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- noun Plural form of
plonk . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
plonk .
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Examples
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It's serendipity: the name plonks southern Lombok on the tourist map by drawing on people's memories of the more familiar Kuta, a name that means fortress.
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It is rather like reading your book quietly on the train when someone plonks themselves next to you and starts to organise their next trip somewhere by yelling down their mobile phone, as happened to me tonight on the way home.
Libraries Maxine 2009
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Boody Rogers, a contemporary of Tex Avery, Harold "Little Orphan Annie" Gray and Chester "Dick Tracy" Gould out-weirded any cartoonist, living or dead, for the bizarre design of his characters and the out-of-control situations he plonks them in.
Boing Boing 2009
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In short, question eight plonks us in the middle of defining what most lawyers I know admit can't really be defined: that is, the public interest.
Ethics aren't the whole story when the news is really big 2011
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When Mother plonks herself down at the rickety outdoor restaurant table to wait for Father, I am warmed by the two hundred-crown notes I liberated from her wallet.
Moving On Andrew Stancek 2011
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Cliches are mined and then given a surreal coda: a hard-boiled female detective starts eating her polystyrene coffee cup when she gets a new lead; a traditional Italian restaurant is the ideal place for a first date, except that it plonks a whole seagull in a salad; Hercule Poirot makes an appearance at key moments, but in the silent form of Fiona Creese with a paper bag over her head.
The Detective Show Elisabeth Mahoney 2010
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It is rather like reading your book quietly on the train when someone plonks themselves next to you and starts to organise their next trip somewhere by yelling down their mobile phone, as happened to me tonight on the way home.
Too groovy for scholarship Maxine 2008
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It is rather like reading your book quietly on the train when someone plonks themselves next to you and starts to organise their next trip somewhere by yelling down their mobile phone, as happened to me tonight on the way home.
Too groovy for scholarship Maxine 2008
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It is rather like reading your book quietly on the train when someone plonks themselves next to you and starts to organise their next trip somewhere by yelling down their mobile phone, as happened to me tonight on the way home.
April 2008 Maxine 2008
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* PB plonks himselb daon awn teh cowtch nd porez a glars ob plonk *
CATEAU DOMESTICO - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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